Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
burned onto it.) At the boot I press F9 and a >> menu >> appears where I can choose to boot from USB stick; but then it doesn't so at >> all >> booting instead into Windows 11. In BIOS I enabled the CSM protocol but >> nothing. Please help as I don&#

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > I understand from the link that it has a 64 bit Celeron J4105 CPU. > > So its EFI would want an "amd64" ISO. Charles Curley wrote: > A Celeron should be able to run i386 Debian. But the amd64 might be a > better use of its capabilities. Other than with legacy BIOS, EFI looks for

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Joseph Loo
You might want to read the manual with the computer. My Lenovo would boot automatically to Windows. In the manual, it had a hold on the side, trusty paperwork clip press the hole, boots into bios. Install Linux On Thu, Jun 8, 2023, 2:51 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 9/6/23 05:18, Bret Busby wrote: >

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread David Christensen
I can choose to boot from USB stick; but then it doesn't so at all booting instead into Windows 11. In BIOS I enabled the CSM protocol but nothing. Please help as I don't know what to do: thanks. On 6/8/23 13:01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > https://www.amazon.it/KUU-Notebook-Prozessor-B

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread David Wright
On Thu 08 Jun 2023 at 15:36:27 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 23:15:36 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > > I understand from the link that it has a 64 bit Celeron J4105 CPU. > > So its EFI would want an "amd64" ISO. > > A Celeron should be able to run i386 Debian. But the am

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 05:18, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 05:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than the malicious Windows 11. A procedure to g

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 05:26, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 05:18, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 05:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than the mal

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 23:15:36 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > I understand from the link that it has a 64 bit Celeron J4105 CPU. > So its EFI would want an "amd64" ISO. A Celeron should be able to run i386 Debian. But the amd64 might be a better use of its capabilities. -- Does anybody read sig

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 20:01:20 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Here it is: > > > https://www.amazon.it/KUU-Notebook-Prozessor-Bluetooth-portatile/dp/B0C4TGXKBC/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=3PK1MW55MAOA Hmm, never heard of that vendor. You might do better with one of the Debian Italian language lists. htt

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 05:02, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than the malicious Windows 11. A procedure to get around the Windows 11 malware, an

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > https://www.amazon.it/KUU-Notebook-Prozessor-Bluetooth-portatile/dp/B0C4TGX KBC/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=3PK1MW55MAOA > $ dd if=debian-11.7.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=4M; sync I understand from the link that it has a 64 bit Celeron J4105 CPU. So its EFI would want

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Bret Busby writes: My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to prevent booting into anything other than the malicious Windows 11. A procedure to get around the Windows 11 malware, and to be able to boot into Linux, has,

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Bret Busby writes: > My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed > to prevent booting into anything other than the malicious Windows 11. > > A procedure to get around the Windows 11 malware, and to be able to boot into > Linux, has, I believe, been described on the

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Bret Busby
I can choose to boot from USB stick; but then it doesn't so at all booting instead into Windows 11. In BIOS I enabled the CSM protocol but nothing. Please help as I don't know what to do: thanks. Rodolfo My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is designed to preve

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Thank you Andrew and Charles. "Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > What model of machine is this - and how new? Here it is: https://www.amazon.it/KUU-Notebook-Prozessor-Bluetooth-portatile/dp/B0C4TGXKBC/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=3PK1MW55MAOA > How did you write the image to the USB stick? This way:

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 18:36:27 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I want to install Debian on a new machine but don't manage to boot > from USB stick. It might help if you identified the new machine. You might also check web sites related to Linux on that manufacturer's products. E.g.

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
e boot I press F9 and a menu > appears where I can choose to boot from USB stick; but then it doesn't so at > all > booting instead into Windows 11. In BIOS I enabled the CSM protocol but > nothing. Please help as I don't know what to do: thanks. > Hi Rodolfo, What mo

Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
en it doesn't so at all booting instead into Windows 11. In BIOS I enabled the CSM protocol but nothing. Please help as I don't know what to do: thanks. Rodolfo

Re: Help with Optimus and external monitor use

2023-05-23 Thread Bob McGowan
Additional info: $ nvidia-detect Detected NVIDIA GPUs: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] [10de:1f91] (rev a1) Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1) Your card is supported by the defau

Help with Optimus and external monitor use

2023-05-22 Thread Bob McGowan
t; is this referring to? The kernal module is loaded: $ lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia_modeset   1204224  1 nvidia  35528704  19 nvidia_modeset drm   630784  19 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,nvidia,amdgpu,ttm Do I have an incorrect X "driver" and if so, what do I need to remove/install? Thanks for your help. Bob

Re: Help with Debian for ARM

2023-05-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Mario Marietto wrote: > I still have the old "Samsung / Google Nexus 10" tablet. I don't like > Android. Any help to install Ubuntu instead of Android on this device is > appreciated. Thanks. First, this is a Debian list, not an Ubuntu list. Second, as far as I kno

Re: Help with Debian for ARM

2023-05-13 Thread Mario Marietto
Errata corrige : I still have the old "Samsung / Google Nexus 10" tablet. I don't like Android. Any help to install Debian instead of Android on this device is appreciated. Thanks. On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 2:27 PM Mario Marietto wrote: > Hello. > > I still have the old

Help with Debian for ARM

2023-05-13 Thread Mario Marietto
Hello. I still have the old "Samsung / Google Nexus 10" tablet. I don't like Android. Any help to install Ubuntu instead of Android on this device is appreciated. Thanks. -- Mario.

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread songbird
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and > the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next.  > I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with > the base from which I get updates, etc.  I used th

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread David Christensen
is a fresh install onto a zeroed drive. Next, install the applications you want. Then connect the USB HDD, mount the file system, and restore your data. Restoring application-specific data, such as a Thunderbird profile, may require additional steps. Please post if you need help with any of

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I used the reinstall on brasero and it just said that it was up to date. What error message does Brasero issue before refusing to work ? What optical medium type do you give Brasero for burning ? I can probably help with composing a xorriso run which perform

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread Tom Dial
On 5/1/23 19:51, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next. I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with the base from which I get updates, et

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-05-01 at 21:51, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Unfortunately I cannot install anything. I used the command line and > the app but neither of them will work. I suspect that if you don't have the various directories under /var/, you may not be able to use apt or aptitude or synaptic or the like

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next.  I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with the base from which I get updates, etc.  I used the reinstall on brasero and it j

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread Tom Dial
This Debian-user thread seems to have gone silent, but it is not clear whether your problem is solved. If it is, just ignore this and move on. If not: The Wanderer, in an earlier post (04/28/2023 at 19;02), suggested reinstalling the base-files package. I believe this is the correct procedure,

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-29 Thread David Christensen
from my nord vpn which was working great until I deleted the above files.  I really want to upgrade to debian 11.  I am using debian 10, on a Lonovo all in one and have had no problems.  I followed the directions for var that I found and now have a screwed up machine.  Is there any help

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Apr 2023 at 22:36:39 (-0400), Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Here is what I got. > > root@debian:/var# /bin/ls -ld */ > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 15:46 backups/ > drwxr-xr-x 19 root root   4096 Apr 12 20:20 cache/ > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 20:59 cores/ > drwxr-xr-x 

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > even after a reboot I still cannot burn a back up disk. In case the crisis lasts longer or you need to make a backup before its solution: What program do you use to burn your backups and what does it report when failing ? What kind of media shall be burnt ? Have a

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:05:01PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Yes my figures are very similar to yours.  But even after a reboot I still > cannot burn a back up disk. One problem may be that /var/log has subdirectories which don't belong to root. Applications trying to write their logs might

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Here is what I got. root@debian:/var# /bin/ls -ld */ drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 15:46 backups/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root   4096 Apr 12 20:20 cache/ drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 20:59 cores/ drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Nov 13  2020 games/ drwxr-xr-x 62 root root   4096 Apr 12

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:05:01PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Yes my figures are very similar to yours.  But even after a reboot I still > cannot burn a back up disk. Do not look at the NUMBERS. OWNER. GROUP. PERMISSIONS. The numbers mean nothing. > On 4/28/23 9:04 PM, Greg Wooledge wro

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Yes my figures are very similar to yours.  But even after a reboot I still cannot burn a back up disk. On 4/28/23 9:04 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 08:57:47PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: OK so I went looking on the net /debian/var to find out why it is running out of roo

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 08:57:47PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > OK so I went looking on the net /debian/var to find out why it is running > out of room.  All I could find is the directions to delete said files.  I > will put them back, now. Make sure you get the ownership and permissions corre

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread The Wanderer
ections for var >> that I found and now have a screwed up machine. Is there any help >> available. I was thinking of upgrading online but don't want to >> loose my data. Please help this old lady. >> >> > Deleting /var/log etc is at best unhelpful. > > I c

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
really want to upgrade to debian 11. I am using debian 10, on a Lonovo all in one and have had no problems.  I followed the directions for var that I found and now have a screwed up machine.  Is there any help available. I was thinking of upgrading online but don't want to loose my data. P

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Dear Mrs. Thomas, Maureen L Thomas writes: > (...) > I was thinking of upgrading > online but don't want to loose my data. First of all, please do back-up your *important* data. Such as pictures, video clips, diary, some text docs, etc. (Also i'm Debian user with Debian Bullseye under ThinkPad

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Jeremy Ardley
sites from my nord vpn which was working great until I deleted the above files.  I really want to upgrade to debian 11. I am using debian 10, on a Lonovo all in one and have had no problems.  I followed the directions for var that I found and now have a screwed up machine.  Is there any help

I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
until I deleted the above files.  I really want to upgrade to debian 11.  I am using debian 10, on a Lonovo all in one and have had no problems.  I followed the directions for var that I found and now have a screwed up machine.  Is there any help available. I was thinking of upgrading online but

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-04-18 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 2:55 PM Jerry Mellon wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian and I would like to install gnucobol. I see it is in > Debian 10 but not 11. I tried to download the Debian 10 gnucobol, but I > get a message that the package is broken. Could you tell me where else I > might obtain

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-04-18 Thread Jerry Mellon
Hi, I am new to Debian and I would like to install gnucobol. I see it is in Debian 10 but not 11. I tried to download the Debian 10 gnucobol, but I get a message that the package is broken. Could you tell me where else I might obtain a compatible cobol compiler? -- Jerry Mellon 501 Los Camin

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-08 Thread Richmond
Amine Derk writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to > install Gnucobol. > > aderkaoua@LAPTOP-6B841S0M:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucobol > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-07 Thread Amine Derk
Thanks, I'll check it out. Update you soon. On Tue, Feb 7, 2023, 8:35 AM wrote: > On 2023-02-04 20:20, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hi Amine, > > > > Amine Derk (2023-02-04): > >> I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to > >> install > >> Gnucobol. > >> > >> aderkaoua@LAP

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-07 Thread jose . r . r
On 2023-02-04 20:20, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Amine, Amine Derk (2023-02-04): I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to install Gnucobol. aderkaoua@LAPTOP-6B841S0M:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucobol Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading

RE: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-04 Thread Ming Kuang
On Sunday, February 5, 2023 12:21 PM, Amine Derk wrote: > > I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to install > > Gnucobol. > > > > aderkaoua@LAPTOP-6B841S0M:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucobol > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree... Done > > Reading st

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-04 Thread Andika Triwidada
> Amine Derk (2023-02-04): > > I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to install > > Gnucobol. > > > > aderkaoua@LAPTOP-6B841S0M:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucobol > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree... Done > > Reading state information... Done > >

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Amine, Amine Derk (2023-02-04): > I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to install > Gnucobol. > > aderkaoua@LAPTOP-6B841S0M:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucobol > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > *E: Un

Re: Please help me install Tomcat

2023-02-02 Thread TRS-80
Amn Ojee Uw writes: > I've tried to install Tomcat, different version, like so : > /# Download the latest release of tomcat 10.1.5// > //wget > https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.85/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.85.tar.gz// > // > //# Create tomcat directory// > //sudo mkdir /opt/tomcat//

Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-31 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 9:42 AM Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 6:00 PM Alexandre Rossi wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> > In the past week my laptop freezes randomly, I can say it happens every >> 2-3 >> > hours. but there are actions that consistently always cause a freeze, >> li

Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 Jan 2023 at 14:41:24 (+), Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 6:00 PM Alexandre Rossi wrote: > > > In the past week my laptop freezes randomly, I can say it happens every > > 2-3 > > > hours. but there are actions that consistently always cause a freeze, > > like >

Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-31 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 6:00 PM Alexandre Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > > In the past week my laptop freezes randomly, I can say it happens every > 2-3 > > hours. but there are actions that consistently always cause a freeze, > like > > opening Zoom or executing lspci in Terminator. > > I would suggest:

Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-30 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
I can get lspci listing with Gnome terminal with no problem , but when i try with Terminator, the second i press the enter key the computer freezes, well most of the time at least once it succeeded with Terminator too. On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 8:43 PM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.co

Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-30 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
I tried SysRQ and there is no response when the computer freezes. i tried before freeze to make sure i know how to use it and it worked, i tried b and k and it worked. but when the computer freezes there is nothing, no response. On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 8:00 PM Alexandre Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > >

Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:59:19 +0200 Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz wrote: > In the past week my laptop freezes randomly, I can say it happens > every 2-3 hours. but there are actions that consistently always cause > a freeze, like opening Zoom or executing lspci in Terminator. lspci leads me to wonder if

Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-30 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, > In the past week my laptop freezes randomly, I can say it happens every 2-3 > hours. but there are actions that consistently always cause a freeze, like > opening Zoom or executing lspci in Terminator. I would suggest: - try to get more debugging info using SysRQ keys [1] - try to get more

laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-30 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz
Hello, Sorry for starting a new conversation, the previous one didn't help me and I hope that now I have more details. I don't have any idea how to approach that, its my workstation and the past few days I just couldn't really work. I'm also not experienced with this ma

WiFi Debugging Help

2022-12-21 Thread Charles Curley
/iwlwifi For other adapters, it might help to have the PCI or USB ID of the adapter handy. This might be useful information for the Debian manual. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-08-02 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 7/27/2022 1:51 PM, Erik Mathis wrote: > I would look at the UEFI vs BIOS boot options in the "backup" server and > compare it to the "broken" server and make sure they are the same. Also check > for BIOS updates and such. > > > -Erik- > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 7:59 AM tony wrote: > >

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-08-02 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-08-02 05:17, David wrote: And then use something like this: https://www.newegg.com/sabrent-ec-dflt-dock/p/N82E16817366069 to connect disk "A" to machine "B". StarTech external caddies/connectors seem OK. mick

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-08-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
13:25, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 14:29:32 (+0100), tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > On 27/07/2022 16:07, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > Thanks for your help. Sadly, I'm not getting very far with this. I > > > guess I'm not understandi

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-08-01 Thread David
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 13:25, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 14:29:32 (+0100), tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 27/07/2022 16:07, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Thanks for your help. Sadly, I'm not getting very far with this. I > > guess I'm not understan

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-08-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 14:29:32 (+0100), tony van der Hoff wrote: > Thanks for your help. Sadly, I'm not getting very far with this. I > guess I'm not understanding your instructions too well: > > On 27/07/2022 16:07, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Have the running linux

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-28 Thread David
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 at 02:32, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Then your new /etc/fstab record should > look like: > The email program split that line all > of that should be on one line > space-separated. hth. > 3fe30767-f7d7-4e6d-b48e-f80eef2d4b71 > /dev/sda9 ext4 defaults,nofail 1 2 Although it does

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Then your new /etc/fstab record should look like: The email program split that line all of that should be on one line space-separated. hth. 3fe30767-f7d7-4e6d-b48e-f80eef2d4b71 /dev/sda9 ext4 defaults,nofail 1 2 On Thu, 28 Jul 2022, tony van der Hoff wrote: > Thanks for your help. Sadly,

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-27 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Wed Jul 27 10:30:05 2022 tony wrote: > I turned on my main home server after a few weeks absence, and got > smoke from its power supply. Fortunately, I have a backup system, > which does work; both are running Debian 10, so I swapped use to that > machine. and am able to work with that, but

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-27 Thread Erik Mathis
I would look at the UEFI vs BIOS boot options in the "backup" server and compare it to the "broken" server and make sure they are the same. Also check for BIOS updates and such. -Erik- On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 7:59 AM tony wrote: > Hi, > > I turned on my main home server after a few weeks abse

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-27 Thread Felix Miata
to BIOS to enable the other mode. There are all sorts of reasons possible for your predicament. David's reply covers many ways to minimize or eliminate the inconvenience of a PC or disk failure, and includes your providing information for helping us to help you. One possible way to encounter

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-27 Thread David Christensen
On 7/27/22 04:37, tony wrote: Hi, I turned on my main home server after a few weeks absence, and got smoke from its power supply. Fortunately, I have a backup system, which does work; both are running Debian 10, so I swapped use to that machine. and am able to work with that, but some of the fi

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-27 Thread gene heskett
On 7/27/22 08:02, tony wrote: Hi, I turned on my main home server after a few weeks absence, and got smoke from its power supply. Fortunately, I have a backup system, which does work; both are running Debian 10, so I swapped use to that machine. and am able to work with that, but some of the fi

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have the running linux system on the machine. Run lsblk to locate the name of the boot partition. Once you have the name run blkid and copy the uuid for use in the end of /etc/fstab and put in the path to the boot device, the disk format ext4, defaults,nofail 1 2 on an fstab entry. Next, run upda

.htaccess help?

2022-06-21 Thread Maurizio Caloro
Rule ^wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/.+\.php - [F,L]  RewriteRule ^wp-includes/theme-compat/ - [F,L] ## No access to usernames  RewriteEngine On  RewriteBase /  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .*author=(.+.?) [NC]  RewriteRule (.*) /blog/?author= [NC,L,R=301] # No ETags # Header unset ETag # FileETag None thanks for possible help regards

Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 11 May 2022 at 20:26:20 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:07:09AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > But after two posts about background information on setuid shell > > scripts, you now write "the worst antipattern is to misuse tech > > to force people

Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:07:09AM -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > But after two posts about background information on setuid shell > scripts, you now write "the worst antipattern is to misuse tech > to force people to follow some nonsensical rituals". Strong words. Sorry if I was unclear. Th

Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 11 May 2022 at 07:05:47 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 10:08:20PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 10 May 2022 at 17:12:25 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > > [...] > > > IOW, though logging in to root by password is ok at the console, > > it's not ok when r

Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2022 11:08:23 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > That complicates unlocking partitions remotely because, even if you > > can log in as root, you normally can't log in remotely as root. > > ??? I log in as root over SSH all the time. Most sshd configs eithe

Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 10:08:20PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 10 May 2022 at 17:12:25 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: [...] > IOW, though logging in to root by password is ok at the console, > it's not ok when remote. ➀ I assume you know all that you can set "PermitRootLogin yes" in your

Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread David Wright
me partitions: > > Unlock? What does "unlock" mean in this context? It looks like a > synonym for "mount". If so, it's an unnecessary opportunity for > confusion. And it sounds like it's more complicated than it need be. /etc/fstab could mount /home, exce

Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 05:12:25PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > I use a special user called unlock, whose home directory is on > > /var/local/, to unlock my /home partitions: > > Unlock? What does "unlock" mean in this context? It looks like a > synonym for "mount". If s

Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 10 May 2022 11:08:23 -0500 David Wright wrote: > That complicates unlocking partitions remotely because, even if you > can log in as root, you normally can't log in remotely as root. ??? I log in as root over SSH all the time. > > I use a special user called unlock, whose home director

Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread David Wright
in this case from: function unlock- { # unlock /home before logging in or transfers ping -c 1 -W 1 | grep 'bytes from' # wake it up first date && ssh -X -l unlock } (The ping seems to help those powerline devices that some hosts use.) ¹ "a general aversion to being in root" Cheers, David.

Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:08:23AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue, 10 May 2022 07:50:18 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Why the aversion to doing things as root? Why not just run your scripts > > as root? This is exactly the sort of thing that is reserved to root for > > reasons of secur

Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, May 10, 2022 10:21:00 AM Charles Curley wrote: > Why the aversion to doing things as root? Why not just run your scripts > as root? This is exactly the sort of thing that is reserved to root for > reasons of security. I may think about that some more, but it is a general aversion to be

Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 May 2022 at 08:21:00 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2022 07:50:18 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Background: 8 years ago I wrote a set of scripts to help me mount and > > unmount LUKS encrypted partitions as needed and as myself > >

Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 10 May 2022 07:50:18 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Background: 8 years ago I wrote a set of scripts to help me mount and > unmount LUKS encrypted partitions as needed and as myself > () rather than as root. Why the aversion to doing things as root? Why not just run your s

Followup: Re: Resolved: Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread rhkramer
By the way, thanks to all who replied! One followup below. On Tuesday, May 10, 2022 08:20:10 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Ok, thanks very much! > > That resolves that -- I do have another way of doing it (the c helper > program), I just don't like it -- I'll probably continue to use that but >

Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 07:58:39AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 07:50:18AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Aside: even though this is not a Debian specific question, I often use > > debian- > > user as my first resource in asking Linux questions. > > It's Linux-speci

Resolved: Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread rhkramer
(Intentionally top posting) Ok, thanks very much! That resolves that -- I do have another way of doing it (the c helper program), I just don't like it -- I'll probably continue to use that but think about alternatives. On Tuesday, May 10, 2022 07:58:39 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > The Linux ker

Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 07:50:18AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Aside: even though this is not a Debian specific question, I often use debian- > user as my first resource in asking Linux questions. > > Background: 8 years ago I wrote a set of scripts to help me mount and unm

Re: Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 07:50:18AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Aside: even though this is not a Debian specific question, I often use debian- > user as my first resource in asking Linux questions. It's Linux-specific, though. > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root 1412 Aug 31 2014 > The Linux kernel doe

Help with suid (bash)

2022-05-10 Thread rhkramer
Aside: even though this is not a Debian specific question, I often use debian- user as my first resource in asking Linux questions. Background: 8 years ago I wrote a set of scripts to help me mount and unmount LUKS encrypted partitions as needed and as myself () rather than as root. Aside

Needing help in knowing what package to report a bug

2022-05-09 Thread Joshua Brickel
. Using Gnome with X CPU family is AMD Epyc Can anyone help me locate which group I should file this issue? Thanks, Joshua

Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable

2022-04-14 Thread manphiz
On 4/14/22 02:07, Christian Britz wrote: On 2022-04-13 09:28 UTC+0200, Yvan Masson wrote: I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry. But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and testing generally runs great. It seems to be more or less cons

Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable

2022-04-14 Thread manphiz
On 4/13/22 00:28, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 12/04/2022 à 03:48, manp...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, I have been trying to set up a Minisforum HX90[1] with Debian stable with backports.  Most of the stuff works out of the box except sound, bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. Hi, I have no idea of what you coul

Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable

2022-04-14 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-13 09:28 UTC+0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry. > But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and > testing generally runs great. It seems to be more or less consent that you are not advised to run De

Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable

2022-04-13 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 12/04/2022 à 03:48, manp...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, I have been trying to set up a Minisforum HX90[1] with Debian stable with backports.  Most of the stuff works out of the box except sound, bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. Hi, I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry.

Help settings up sound card on Debian stable

2022-04-11 Thread manphiz
pcm ``` I've googled around and tried to install some firmware including "firmware-sof-signed" but it didn't help. The "lspci output" looks like: ``` $ sudo lspci -v [..snip..] 04:00.5 Multimedia controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Raven/Raven2

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