lease it fraught with
problems. As is oft pointed out here, see...
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
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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.
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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
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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
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.
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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
ected.
And it broke threading.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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ard all mail to
proper IMAP sever (Dovecot) run by me and used that for work email.
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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.
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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).
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offline use' configured or
actually look at the remote email folders again it will re-download
them.
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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.
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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.
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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. ;-)
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-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.
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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
.
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.
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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?
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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
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.
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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
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he package tracker shows it's history,
looks like one of the libraries it depends on isn't present in the
correct version.
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50096
[2] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/21796
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ult they will only do a fast-
forward operation. There are commandline options and config setups to
change this.
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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
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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&
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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/dconf-gsettings-backend
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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.
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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
> &
o have similar devices running
Debian and in constant use.
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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.
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veloper.arm.com/support/security-update
[2] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/
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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.
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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
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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
t;
> SEP? Google is no help.
Some Else's Problem?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem
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I'm not the OP, but that's the reason I use Linux software encryption
rather than that built into the SSD.
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with is a (QT based?) commercial application: Beyond Compare.
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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
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.
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> resolved issues.
Have you considered the reason why someone else would think to do such
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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'.
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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
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.
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for our benefit, they do whatever benefit's their bottom line in the
long run.
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; 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.
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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.
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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.
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like it's available for arm64 architecture since Stretch...
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=subversion
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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
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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.
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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.
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>
> 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.
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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
ecause
there is only a single non-null argument between the [ ]
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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...
th all of the above, but as the saying goes: 'you can lead a
horse to water, but you can't make him drink'.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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ment order as WHAT WHERE
mount WHAT WHERE
cp WHAT WHERE
ln WHAT WHERE
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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/
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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.
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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
also download the latest pages from wiki.debian.org and email
them to you if you want.
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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'
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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.
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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.
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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
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:
> > > >
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
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' as
you are the owner, and owner has write permission set.
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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.)
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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.
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'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".
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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
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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
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.
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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
/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
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gle.com/url?q=http://techrights.org/2021/11/10/firefox-esr-91-issues/&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1639153687425000&usg=AOvVaw2wBZnDhgCrL9Id5BzyH5hE
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ld one and deleted the new one it created.
(Using the URL "about:profiles")
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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.
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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
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.
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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
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
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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