Re: MPV Player...

2023-02-27 Thread Tixy
lease it fraught with problems. As is oft pointed out here, see... https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian -- Tixy

Re: Debugging what is deleting/recreating /etc/resolv.conf with wrong configuration, on debian stable

2023-02-28 Thread Tixy
gt; new name for eth0 Or eno for ethernet too. My ethernet started out as eno2 when I did the initial install and this changed to eno1 when I disabled the onboard wireless in the bios. --  Tixy

Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12

2023-02-28 Thread Tixy
e. If you looked at the release notes [1] it suggests # apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs # apt full-upgrade Then lists some possible issues and there remedy. [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#minimal-upgrade -- Tixy

Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12

2023-02-28 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 14:52 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 06:32:27PM +0000, Tixy wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 13:16 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > [...] > > > All I did was modify /etc/apt/sources.list from Bullseye to Bookworm, then &g

Re: service vs systemctl

2023-03-07 Thread Tixy
be a service that # has one or more .socket files, we also stop the .socket units. # Users who need more control will use systemctl directly. Personally, I still use 'service' through habit and won't change until it doesn't do what I expect. -- Tixy

Re: service vs systemctl

2023-03-07 Thread Tixy
I accidentally deleted a sentence in my last reply, here's the corrected version... On Tue, 2023-03-07 at 15:38 +0800, Ken Young wrote: > Hello > > For debian 11, service is just a wrapper to systemctl, is it right? It's a 217 line shell script and looking at it it checks for which init system i

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Tixy
ected. And it broke threading. -- Tixy

Re: Re: home server for email box

2023-03-10 Thread Tixy
fix a broken email server. For most people, email service is pretty critical so you will likely want a second fallback email server somewhere else. This is what I do, I used to have a VPS for this but to save money I recently moved to an email hosting service that supports receiving emails for other domains. -- Tixy

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Tixy
but no luck yet in my searches. I installed 'thermald' to stop my CPUs hitting the max junction temperature and hard resetting after a few minutes. I was quite surprised that the standard kernel doesn't actually have thermal protection which throttles CPU clocks and requires an external userspace program to do this. -- Tixy

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Tixy
t;bookworm" to "testing", will it > do that, and (other than the instabilities of testing) is there any > liability to it? Testing doesn't get explicit security support so there's no point in having 'testing-security' lines in sources.list (I guess it'll give an error anyway). -- Tixy

Re: Evolution email (problem?)

2023-04-27 Thread Tixy
ard all mail to proper IMAP sever (Dovecot) run by me and used that for work email. --  Tixy

Re: Evolution email (problem?)

2023-04-27 Thread Tixy
re using Google's Gmail where 'folders' aren't really folders, just tags applied in a database. Who knows how it's going to behave when they Google maps that onto the IMAP protocol. -- Tixy

Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)

2023-04-30 Thread Tixy
close Evolution. (I've always hated the idea of Wastebaskets, if I delete something I want it deleted, not just hidden and taking up space). -- Tixy

Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)

2023-04-30 Thread Tixy
offline use' configured or actually look at the remote email folders again it will re-download them. -- Tixy

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-01 Thread Tixy
18-amd64). Because this issue seemed familiar I looked at my bash command history and that has me cd'ing into that directory and doing a du command there and then deleting stuff. So I guess I've also resorted to manually cleaning it up in the past. -- Tixy

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Tixy
possibilities that spring to mind is that this is and error, a noop, or means 'every package'. The latter you be real bad, the other two now a useful suggestion to people. Of course, it could be special cased to mean 'purge everything not installed', which count be useful, but the man page doesn't say that. -- Tixy

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Tixy
e-liner to get a list of installed packages and remove them all. Of course, this would break at some point after removing a package with executable programs used by package scripts. ;-) -- Tixy

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-04 Thread Tixy
-4.0 > > libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 > > libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 > > Ah, thank you very much for that information. In the meanwhile, I > found > that there is already a bug report available at Debian about that. That's good, because I too can only read email by hitting Ctrl-U to view the source. -- Tixy

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-04 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2023-05-04 at 20:09 +0200, zithro wrote: > > A recent email from the Debian security team confirms this (Advisory > DSA-5396-2) : > > "The webkit2gtk update released as 5396-1 introduced a compatibility > problem that caused Evolution to display e-mail incorrectly. Evolution > has been u

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-10 Thread Tixy
. Or maybe the wiki page should be deleted, or just say go RTFM, i.e. read the release notes for the release you want to upgrade to. -- Tixy

Re: fstrim: /: the discard operation is not supported

2023-06-11 Thread Tixy
tings, have done since I googled how to do this a few releases ago. > Any hints what to test or where to search for a solution? After changing lvm.conf did you rebuild initramfs and reboot? -- Tixy

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2023-06-11 at 15:24 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 2:12 AM Tixy wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2023-06-10 at 23:55 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Debian's wiki says to use apt-get: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade. Als

Bookwork upgrade fail with encrypted root

2023-06-12 Thread Tixy
Hmmm, perhaps I did something else to cause cryptsetup-initramfs to be removed? Either way, it seems safe advice to other people with an encrypted root partition to mark the package as manually installed to help prevent issues. -- Tixy

Re: Pulseaudio - Daemon.conf

2023-07-18 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2023-07-19 at 01:24 +0200, Stefan Schumacher wrote: > I noticed that pulseaudio is not part of Debian Bookworm anymore. Yes it is [1] and it's still running on my machine after upgrading to Bookworm. (I run the LXDE desktop.) [1] https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/pulseaudio -- Tixy

Re: Package policy?

2023-08-08 Thread Tixy
he package tracker shows it's history, looks like one of the libraries it depends on isn't present in the correct version. -- Tixy

Re: kernel 6.4.0-3 (testing) cannot be installed with virtualbox-dkms

2023-08-24 Thread Tixy
50096 [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/21796 -- Tixy

Re: git setup

2023-08-24 Thread Tixy
ult they will only do a fast- forward operation. There are commandline options and config setups to change this. -- Tixy

Re: git setup

2023-08-25 Thread Tixy
tion. I do this after copying the .git directory to my remote server when setting up a new repo. Google returns a Stack Overflow answer [1] that says you can do the same with: git config --bool core.bare true [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199897/how-to-convert-a-normal-git-repository-to-a-bare-one -- Tixy

Re: git setup

2023-08-25 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2023-08-25 at 19:47 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 8/25/23 13:44, Tixy wrote: > > On Fri, 2023-08-25 at 10:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Yes, I think a bare remote is the way to go in this context > > > > You can make a repo bare by editing it&

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-25 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2023-08-26 at 00:55 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I'm getting the > message, "No Popularity contest entry for kde-full" (and friends). I > use kde-full and I have popularity contest enabled, so there should be > at least one entry. Perhaps because they're metapackages? -- Tixy

Re: Debugging initramfs, server hangs during boot process

2023-08-25 Thread Tixy
o a tmpfs (it has to, at this > point). If the machine locks up, the log is lost... Logs will appear on the screen so long as you don't have the 'quiet' parameter on the Linux commandline. -- Tixy

Re: AW: Debugging initramfs, server hangs during boot process

2023-08-26 Thread Tixy
ot; implying the opposite may true sometimes. [1]  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux_for_real_time/7/html/reference_guide/chap-timestamping -- Tixy

Re: git setup

2023-08-26 Thread Tixy
g. ssh) to give BACKUP access. If PRODUCTION is something like a laptop that you use when not at home, then you may not want to have said service exposing itself on strange wifi networks. -- Tixy

Re: Atril configuration saving

2017-08-30 Thread Tixy
] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/dconf-gsettings-backend -- Tixy

Re: making me automaticly logged in?

2017-09-18 Thread Tixy
speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci usb 3-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=2232, idProduct=1018 usb 3-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 3-1.4: Product: WebCam SC-13HDL11431N I don't know if this will help with your particular problem. -- Tixy

Resetting USB devices (was Re: making me autocratically logged in?)

2017-09-18 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 17:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 18 September 2017 11:39:26 Tixy wrote: > > > On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 11:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > > > My instant problem, a disappearing usb camera, could also be solved > &

Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ?

2017-11-07 Thread Tixy
o have similar devices running Debian and in constant use. -- Tixy

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-07 Thread Tixy
error saying I must be superuser. Which has always been my experience in 10 years of using Debian. >From a desktop environment it's usually been possible to shut a machine down from a menu option, though at least on one release I ended up having to hack some policy config to allow that to work. -- Tixy

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread Tixy
veloper.arm.com/support/security-update [2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/ -- Tixy

Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

2018-01-08 Thread Tixy
ng on the 3.2 kernel in Wheezy compared to 3.16 as used in Jessie. Or perhaps the latter port hit problems, who knows. -- Tixy

Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

2018-01-13 Thread Tixy
0.00] Linux version 4.9.0-5-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170 516 (Debian 6.3.0-18) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 (2018-01-04) ... [0.00] DMI: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.8.1-pre-memset3 06/07/2017 [0.00] Hypervisor detected: Xen [0.00] Xen version 4.8. ... [0.00] Booting paravirtualized kernel on Xen HVM ... [0.00] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled -- Tixy

Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

2018-01-13 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2018-01-13 at 08:06 +, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 22:40 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2018-01-12 21:21:06 +, Nick wrote: > > > It might have aged out of the buffer that dmesg reports on. > > > > No, there's the beginning of the d

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Tixy
t; > SEP? Google is no help. Some Else's Problem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: dm-crypt/LUKS performance

2014-11-17 Thread Tixy
rely on whatever black box lives inside the disk? I'm not the OP, but that's the reason I use Linux software encryption rather than that built into the SSD. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

2014-12-10 Thread Tixy
tice it with is a (QT based?) commercial application: Beyond Compare. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1418198640.2811.16.ca...@yxit.co.uk

Re: [minor bitch] about the panel (taskbar) LXDE

2014-12-10 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 07:25 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Tixy writes: > > A (possibly wild) speculation is there's some race condition where the > > task bar button gets created before the application sets it's icon and > > then doesn't get notice or act on the

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-22 Thread Tixy
resumably when there are no spare working flash blocks left to replace those that have worn out. Some cheap ones I've had have only lasted a mater of months, other are going strong after many years. -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Howto disable automounting of all removeable media

2021-05-16 Thread Tixy
*my name* as a keyword when looking for > resolved issues. Have you considered the reason why someone else would think to do such a thing? -- Tixy

Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

2021-05-18 Thread Tixy
stalled after forcibly reinstalling them. I've not done this sort of thing, but to get and set package states 'apt-mark' looks like the tool. Try 'man apt-mark'. -- Tixy

Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

2021-05-18 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 07:42 +0100, Tixy wrote: [...] > When reinstalling packages that were installed automatically to satisfy > dependencies, you would want to make sure their state is set back to > auto installed after forcibly reinstalling them. > > I've not done this sort

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Tixy
sktop will go from drawing 17W from the mains when idle, to 160W when maxing out all 8 CPUs and temperature will jump about from 40C to 95C in a few seconds. -- Tixy

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Tixy
for our benefit, they do whatever benefit's their bottom line in the long run. -- Tixy

Re: removing modules

2021-07-04 Thread Tixy
; kernel, but as time goes on there is surely less need for it? > There is need, because if there's no binary compatibility change, Debian kernel updates keep the same version number and overwrite the existing one. So if that new kernel has a bug on your system and won't boot, then you're a bit stuffed. This has happened to me in the past. -- Tixy

Re: 2 NIC's

2021-07-09 Thread Tixy
7;s not working and find the fix immediately yourself. It often does work that way :-) But in this case the original question here was 4 days ago, and replies included lots of what I assume were useful clues, including suggesting that the eth0 and eth1 labels may not refer to the cards David thought they did. -- Tixy

Re: Buster no release file

2021-07-11 Thread Tixy
team. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise If you look at the wiki page for GregWooledge there is no contact info only a link to a page that starts with American political messages. Fortunately, my first impressions of this Greg person were from postings to this list, so to me he's this Bash expert and generally technically sound guy who's worth listening to. -- Tixy

Re: Buster+Gnome on Pi4

2021-07-17 Thread Tixy
like it's available for arm64 architecture since Stretch... https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=subversion -- Tixy

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Tixy
e owned by root but access by frank ? > > Will chown work ? Also looks like / is not writeable by root, what have you done to your system? Didn't you have directory permissions problems before? A quick search throws up https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/10/msg00059.html -- Tixy

Re: kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing

2021-07-22 Thread Tixy
it. Presumably the process is as described in full freeze announcement, i.e. package developer makes unblock request to allow migration into testing and release team grant it if they think it meets the criteria for release. -- Tixy

Re: kernel patch for "FULL FREEZE" branch /testing

2021-07-22 Thread Tixy
fixes for that package in a stable release. For highly complex software like the Linux kernel, and web browsers like Firefox, Debian security releases tend to stick with upstream long -term-support releases that contain the security fix. It's completely impractical to maintain a Debian specific fork and patch that. -- Tixy

Re: encrypt/lvm issue during install.... [WAS: location of screenshots during debian install

2021-07-28 Thread Tixy
> > 2) Create a partition to hold the LVM subsystem, but do not mount it. > > 3) Go into the LVM subsystem, and turn your empty partition into a >    volume group. > > 4) Create logical volumes within the VG for each file system you want, >    including root. > > However, since you were trying to do encryption as well, you should > definitely look for advice from someone who has done that. Between steps 2) and 3) you encrypt the partition. -- Tixy

Re: encrypt/lvm issue during install.... [WAS: location of screenshots during debian install

2021-07-28 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 13:31 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 07:54 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 10:05:54PM -0600, Jupiter777 wrote: > > > so loop-with-no-exit went like: > > > > > > > > > -- installer recognized t

Re: Bash script problem

2021-08-05 Thread Tixy
ecause there is only a single non-null argument between the [ ] -- Tixy

Re: Fwd: [OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-15 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2021-08-14 at 20:44 +0100, Michael Howard wrote: > and her is an off list reply reply from the less than honourable Polyna I killfiled them weeks ago, I don't know why people do just do similar and move on...

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Tixy
th all of the above, but as the saying goes: 'you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink'. -- Tixy

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Tixy
r may hit). Want to take bets that Gene won't be back in a few days with problems caused by some of the above changes? He could save himself, and you, time and hassle if he read the release notes. -- Tixy

Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

2021-08-18 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 09:06 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-08-18 08:40, Tixy wrote: > > > I agree with all of the above, but as the saying goes: 'you can lead a > > horse to water, but you can't make him drink'. > You can't blame a horse for wa

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

2021-08-20 Thread Tixy
efault on bullseye. Maybe that behaviour changed during the release > process. It's enabled on my PC which was a fresh install in December using a Bullseye release candidate installer. -- Tixy

Re: CUPS permissions

2021-08-26 Thread Tixy
ialog box uses javascript, you don't have any plugins that might might block that do you? E.g. I needed noscript set to enable scripts on localhost. Also, I don't know if Firefox's 'Block pop-up windows' setting may affect things. -- Tixy

Re: Soft link confusion

2021-08-30 Thread Tixy
ment order as WHAT WHERE mount WHAT WHERE cp WHAT WHERE ln WHAT WHERE -- Tixy

Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names

2021-08-31 Thread Tixy
d this out when I decided to enable motherboard WiFi in the BIOS settings on my new desktop PC and this caused my ethernet to stop working. Upon investigation I found the ethernet was now called 'eno2' and the Debian installer had put 'eno1' in /etc/network/interfaces because I had installed with WiFi disabled. [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ -- Tixy

Re: gcc-10: options order important?

2021-09-03 Thread Tixy
f that page on archive.org. So seems strange that for many years my Makefiles have worked with Libraries specified before inputs that use them. -- Tixy

Re: gcc-10: options order important?

2021-09-03 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2021-09-03 at 14:10 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2021-09-03 at 12:24 +0200, Piotr A. Dybczyński wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in contrary to previous versions, now in Debian 11 with gcc-10: > > > > gcc aa.c -lm -o aa works, but > > > &g

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

2021-09-22 Thread Tixy
also download the latest pages from wiki.debian.org and email them to you if you want. -- Tixy

Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2021-09-28 Thread Tixy
ave no idea what > > the set command does in them. > > > > I agree. In the "normal" shells, you need to use "export" instead of "set"! > Or, if you don't want to assign the variable value in the current shell environment, just that of an external command you run, then you can make the assignment part of the same command expression: VAR=value command Example in action... $ FOO=foo $ FOO=bar sh -c 'echo $FOO' bar # command above saw new value 'bar' $ echo $FOO foo # this shell kept original value 'foo' -- Tixy

Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

2021-10-13 Thread Tixy
if installer kernel has the cdc_ether driver), but sounds like the device initially presents itself as a USB mass storage device and needs some way to force it to change modes. -- Tixy

Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

2021-10-13 Thread Tixy
es > hits for either term :{ Google does. It's part of the documentation in the Linux source code for the "Driver for CDC MBIM Mobile Broadband modems". Perhaps that is what your Linkzone implements and no Ethernet as I speculated? You can check by looking at the kernel logs when you plug the device in on a computer. -- Tixy

Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

2021-10-13 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 13:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/13/2021 12:35 PM, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 17:09 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 08:51:28AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > > > > > On 10/13/21 8:16 AM, Richard Owlett w

Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

2021-10-13 Thread Tixy
Resending with quoting fixed... On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 13:18 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/13/2021 12:35 PM, Tixy wrote: > > On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 17:09 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 08:51:28AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > > >

Re: Intrinsic problem with netinst.iso?

2021-10-13 Thread Tixy
ote NDIS protocol. It make work in other cases, that's just what my phone does and what I tested. [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-11.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso -- Tixy

Re: Mutt can not delete mails

2021-10-28 Thread Tixy
' as you are the owner, and owner has write permission set. -- Tixy

Re: LXQT desktop environment hangs?

2021-11-01 Thread Tixy
opening several tabs (which I don't normally do). If I then turn off the ad blocker and enable javascript, then it seems to use up to 100% of a single CPU total when doing 'nothing'. (Presumably that's crap and malicious java script doing whatever it does.) -- Tixy

Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

2021-11-05 Thread Tixy
ere is a reason or two. Guessing here... because a live version already has a desktop environment on the disk, so it make sense to default to installing that one. E.g. if you choose, say, the XFCE live iso, it would default to XFCE not Gnome. Would be a bit perverse otherwise. -- Tixy

Re: Service stuck at shutdow

2021-11-10 Thread Tixy
wn before network filesystems are unmounted. -- Tixy

Re: Machine won't power off after upgrade to bullseye.

2021-11-23 Thread Tixy
'poweroff'? > Probably the same as with 'halt -p' because 'halt', 'poweroff' and 'reboot' are symlinks to the same program and according to the man page the -p option means "Power-off the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is invoked". -- Tixy

Re: Emoji fonts in Debian [WAS:] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-26 Thread Tixy
bian on the desktop (who use MUA > software, as opposed to webmail via a browser) have such a font > installed, or do they see tofu? I see the rectangle which is used for missing glyphs, I'm guess that's what you mean by tofu (had to google the term). -- Tixy

Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up

2021-11-29 Thread Tixy
the original cores? > > Or does someone have a better explanation? That each core supports Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT), AKA Hyperthreading, so appears to software as two CPUs. This is common for most modern x86 CPUs. (Though the one I'm typing this on actual 8 CPUs without hyper-threading). -- Tixy

Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up

2021-11-30 Thread Tixy
or chip can execute 8 independent programs simultaneously, so I would consider it more silly to report it only having 4 CPUs (or one if that was what you were expecting - for one chip). --  Tixy

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-02 Thread Tixy
e name with the generic governors, they do not work in the same way as the generic governors. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling -- Tixy

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-02 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 08:02 +, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 00:38 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > > > [...] > > You might want to try and figure out why you get `powersave` as > > default governor, but until you've figured it out, y

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Tixy
rom the Debian installer on a USB stick. > Maybe it installs os-prober automatically then. > In my case, I installed Windows later, and I am almost sure that I had > to install os-prober manually. The grub-common package Recommends os-prober, so I would have thought it would be installed automatically by the installer, unless you've taken special measures to tell it not to install recommended packages. -- Tixy

Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

2021-12-02 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 15:52 +, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 13:52 +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > > > To be honest, I don't know exactly what the installer does, if it finds > > another OS. > > How would it do that? Detecting other OS's i

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-03 Thread Tixy
/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.19/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.html -- Tixy

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-09 Thread Tixy
gle.com/url?q=http://techrights.org/2021/11/10/firefox-esr-91-issues/&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1639153687425000&usg=AOvVaw2wBZnDhgCrL9Id5BzyH5hE -- Tixy

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-09 Thread Tixy
ld one and deleted the new one it created. (Using the URL "about:profiles") -- Tixy

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox + Thunderbird upstream solution

2021-12-10 Thread Tixy
ng chmod 755). Though to me, it seems that wouldn't help without changing the owner too, which I've done (to my user). Will see how things go on the next ESR release. -- Tixy

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox + Thunderbird upstream solution

2021-12-10 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2021-12-10 at 15:45 +, piorunz wrote: > On 10/12/2021 15:27, Tixy wrote: > > > Will Firefox be able to update itself with security updates? > > One HowTo on the web I saw said to change permissions of files > > extracted from the tarball to allow this, (usi

Re: biqu bx 3d printer ??

2021-12-22 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 04:36 -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...] > What utility could adjust the baud and endianess of this tty_ACM0? I can't see how that is relevant, this is your printer's USB connection not some old style asynchronous serial interface like RS232. -- Tixy

Re: biqu bx 3d printer ??

2021-12-22 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 14:14 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > > Le mercredi 22 décembre 2021 à 11:54 +, Tixy a écrit : > > > > I can't see how that is relevant, this is your printer's USB > > connection > > not some old style asynchronous serial in

Re: biqu bx 3d printer ??

2021-12-23 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2021-12-23 at 13:22 +, Curt wrote: > On 2021-12-22, Tixy wrote: > > On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 04:36 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > What utility could adjust the baud and endianess of this tty_ACM0? > > > > I can't see how tha

Re: biqu bx 3d printer ??

2021-12-23 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2021-12-23 at 14:20 +, Curt wrote: > On 2021-12-23, Tixy wrote: > > > > Still none the wiser of what hardware in the printer you would be > > setting the baud rate of though, but as I'm ignorant of the insides of > > 3D printers perhaps that's

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