Re: digikam import fails
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:39:19PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > Is this the first time you have tried this? > > Go for another 32 times and you could get success :). > > Just a suggestion, in the light of your recent experiences. This is unnecessarily rude. If you can't cope with how some folks ask for help here (shit happens! -- it happens to me too), it'd be better to shut up instead of pouring snark on others. That'd make this a better place. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: digikam import fails
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 03:19:38PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just took a pix of one of my projects to send to a friend, but > when I had installed digikam to download the pix from my camera, > going thru the usual steps to access the camera, which it did as > usual, but when I had selected the pix, and tried o dl it, the album > selector window was blanked, empty and even when I typed in the > full path to the desired directory, which has around 20G of pix > already in /home/gene/Pictures, there was no response to the > return key aother than the search bar being blacked, the album > window remains blanked and the ok on the lower right of that > album window remains ghosted. > > IOW, I cannot download from the camera. How do I go about > troubleshooting this? I can't help with Digikam. Usually I just mount the camera (most of them can pose as USB mass storage these days). > The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of > missing this and that despite the installation of digikam > pulling in: > 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 273 MB of archives. > After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used. > > Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines > spit out in the shell I launched it from. Perhaps you might get more help if you could specify some of those "missing that" a bit more closely. I don't know. WRT to digikam, most probably not from me, because I keep desktop environments at a safe distance. > Its obvious to me there are > more kde dependencies missing, that just the 261 listed. If you want some kind of help on that, you'd have to put some effort into making this "obvious" to us. Why is that obvious to you? The package manager seems happy, and these days it tends to get dependencies right most of the time. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: non installed printer can not be removed
Re: virtualbox kernel modules?
On 17/6/22 00:08, Boyan Penkov wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 12:09 AM Keith Bainbridge wrote: Cheers! Good afternoon Boyan What happened when you installed to 2 suggested items? Hey Keith -- yes, thanks for the pointer; you're absolutely correct... Somehow linux-image-headers was not installed on this machine. Once it was, cleaned some stuff up, and this problem went away... Of course, question for the DMs, then -- why not make the headers a dependency of virtualbox-dkms? Thanks kindly! Been there before. Yes, it should be a required package for VBox. Perhaps we should record this where such difficulties go, but I can never remember the list name when I want it (like now). Frankly, it's part of the reason I prefer LinuxMint Debian. A lot more user packages are installed by default. By the bye, it's good form to reply to the list, not just the responder. -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com
Re: non installed printer can not be removed
> On 17 Jun 2022, at 01:56, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Thu 16 Jun 2022, at 22:13, Hans wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I am struggeling with a little problem, I can not explain. >> >> A friend of mine uses a printer (Samsung SL-C480FW), which is connected to >> the >> router with wireless. However, although there are no drivers and no >> ppd-files >> installed, the printer is seen by cups (and also by system-printer-config) >> but >> can not be used (think, because the missing ppd-file). >> >> When this is installed, udev-entries and so on are set, then the printer is >> seen for example with ipp://192.168.*.*. >> >> However, printing does not work, although the printer gets data, but then >> hangs. I believe, this is a driver problem (because this appeared, since my >> friend got a new router (FritzBox). >> >> I hope, for this I will find a solution, so hints are welcome, buut not the >> reason for this thread. >> >> Much more I am interested, to know, why I can not delete the printer in CUPS >> or system-config-printer? Any printer I add, can be deleted, but the last >> entry can not be deleted. >> >> What is wrong? Why does the kernel see the correct printer, and where does >> it >> get its information? It is not connected at the USB-port, so no information >> could be taken from this. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks for any help! >> >> Best regards >> >> Hans > > Various sources (but not HP documentation afaics) suggest this printer is > airprint-compatible. > > https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-C480FW-Colour-Multifunction-Printer/dp/B010NE2HKI > > https://productz.com/en/samsung-xpress-sl-c480fw/p/wxnG7 > > If so, I would suggest "cannot delete" = continuous autodetection. > > What is the output of > > $ driverless > > As for not actually being able to print, I have a problem like that too which > has only recently emerged with an airprint printer which worked until > recently. > > You might find you can print (as I do) if you add a queue via lpadmin. > > As helped me recently: > > "# lpinfo -v > > to get a list of URLs (the one starting with ipp:// is the one > necessary), and then something like > > # lpadmin -p Brother2740 -v IPP_URL_FROM_ABOVE -E -m everywhere" > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/06/msg00212.html > Can anyone with a fax-capable MFP confirm that driverless autodetected printing works with CUPS on Debian 11 with the latest stable CUPS version? My debug-enabled cups error log includes the following, which makes me wonder if it's being identified correctly: Does this suggest it's being detected as (only) a fax? (Though this relates to a queue manually added with system-config-printer as nothing is autodetected) D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Resolving \"Brother MFC-L2740DW series\", regtype=\"_ipp._tcp\", domain=\"local.\"... D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Notifier] state=3 D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Notifier] PrinterStateChanged D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Color Manager: Calibration Mode/Off D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] PID 2953512 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/bannertopdf) exited with no errors. D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Calling FindDeviceById(cups-MFC-L2740DW_DLIPP) D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Found device /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/devices/cups_MFC_L2740DW_DLIPP D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Calling org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Device.Get(ProfilingInhibitors) D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Calling FindDeviceById(cups-MFC-L2740DW_DLIPP) D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Found device /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/devices/cups_MFC_L2740DW_DLIPP D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Calling GetProfileForQualifiers(Gray.Stationery.600dpi...) D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Found profile /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/MFC_L2740DW_DLIPP_Gray__ D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Calling org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Profile.Get(Filename) D [17/Jun/2022:00:47:45 +0100] [Job 36] Resolved as \"ipp://mfcl2740dw.local:631/ipp/faxout\"... system-config-printer refuses to persist changes to the driver for autodetected queues with previous cups versions which do autodetect it, hanging on to the version including "...fax, driverless...". Thanks, Gareth
Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Does DEBIAN BullsEye has FIPS package available
On 2022-06-15 18:08, Dan Ritter wrote: Tapas Das wrote: Dan, On Redhat Linux, to enable FIPS, FIPS package is available https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3293631 ==> Explains how to validate if FIPS is enabled on Redhat Linux I am looking for something like that, whereby I can install a package and enable FIPS on Debian. No, if this is important to you, your deployment system should ensure that the boot system passes fips=1 to the kernel. I'm not sure why you would need a package for that; it's a configuration item that only makes sense if you set it at boot time. There may be user space components too. I don't know if Debian still ships with openssl or another SSL library now but openssl specifically can be compiled in some FIPS compatibility mode. Bijan
Re: digikam import fails
On 6/16/22 21:23, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2022 03:19:38 pm gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; I just took a pix of one of my projects to send to a friend, but when I had installed digikam to download the pix from my camera, going thru the usual steps to access the camera, which it did as usual, but when I had selected the pix, and tried o dl it, the album selector window was blanked, empty and even when I typed in the full path to the desired directory, which has around 20G of pix already in /home/gene/Pictures, there was no response to the return key aother than the search bar being blacked, the album window remains blanked and the ok on the lower right of that album window remains ghosted. IOW, I cannot download from the camera. How do I go about troubleshooting this? The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of missing this and that despite the installation of digikam pulling in: 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 273 MB of archives. After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used. Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines spit out in the shell I launched it from. Its obvious to me there are more kde dependencies missing, that just the 261 listed. I've tried to install some of them by the names reported, but that universally does not exit. And I'd druther not install the rest of kde, its not stable for me. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. I must be missing something here... When I plug in my camera to a US port, it shows up on the desktop, at which point I can mount it. Then I can access it and copy/move stuff to wherever, using mc or whatever utility you like. Why is some special program needed for this? Probably the desktop Roy, I'm using xfce4. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
Re: digikam import fails
On Thursday 16 June 2022 03:19:38 pm gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just took a pix of one of my projects to send to a friend, but > when I had installed digikam to download the pix from my camera, > going thru the usual steps to access the camera, which it did as > usual, but when I had selected the pix, and tried o dl it, the album > selector window was blanked, empty and even when I typed in the > full path to the desired directory, which has around 20G of pix > already in /home/gene/Pictures, there was no response to the > return key aother than the search bar being blacked, the album > window remains blanked and the ok on the lower right of that > album window remains ghosted. > > IOW, I cannot download from the camera. How do I go about > troubleshooting this? > > The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of > missing this and that despite the installation of digikam > pulling in: > 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 273 MB of archives. > After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used. > > Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines > spit out in the shell I launched it from. Its obvious to me there are > more kde dependencies missing, that just the 261 listed. I've tried to > install some of them by the names reported, but that universally does > not exit. And I'd druther not install the rest of kde, its not stable > for me. > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. I must be missing something here... When I plug in my camera to a US port, it shows up on the desktop, at which point I can mount it. Then I can access it and copy/move stuff to wherever, using mc or whatever utility you like. Why is some special program needed for this? -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
Re: digikam import fails
On 6/16/22 20:49, Fred wrote: Hi, I use this in a script called get_photo for downloading: #!/bin/sh gphoto2 --auto-detect --skip-existing -P Best regards, Fred If that worked it would dl 20 gigs of stuff I've already dl'd and sorted & renamed. I'd be another week sorting it.. I just needed the last pix. And got it off the card with gimp. Thanks Fred, take care & stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
Re: non installed printer can not be removed
On Thu 16 Jun 2022, at 22:13, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am struggeling with a little problem, I can not explain. > > A friend of mine uses a printer (Samsung SL-C480FW), which is connected to > the > router with wireless. However, although there are no drivers and no ppd-files > installed, the printer is seen by cups (and also by system-printer-config) > but > can not be used (think, because the missing ppd-file). > > When this is installed, udev-entries and so on are set, then the printer is > seen for example with ipp://192.168.*.*. > > However, printing does not work, although the printer gets data, but then > hangs. I believe, this is a driver problem (because this appeared, since my > friend got a new router (FritzBox). > > I hope, for this I will find a solution, so hints are welcome, buut not the > reason for this thread. > > Much more I am interested, to know, why I can not delete the printer in CUPS > or system-config-printer? Any printer I add, can be deleted, but the last > entry can not be deleted. > > What is wrong? Why does the kernel see the correct printer, and where does it > get its information? It is not connected at the USB-port, so no information > could be taken from this. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks for any help! > > Best regards > > Hans Various sources (but not HP documentation afaics) suggest this printer is airprint-compatible. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-C480FW-Colour-Multifunction-Printer/dp/B010NE2HKI https://productz.com/en/samsung-xpress-sl-c480fw/p/wxnG7 If so, I would suggest "cannot delete" = continuous autodetection. What is the output of $ driverless As for not actually being able to print, I have a problem like that too which has only recently emerged with an airprint printer which worked until recently. You might find you can print (as I do) if you add a queue via lpadmin. As helped me recently: "# lpinfo -v to get a list of URLs (the one starting with ipp:// is the one necessary), and then something like # lpadmin -p Brother2740 -v IPP_URL_FROM_ABOVE -E -m everywhere" https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/06/msg00212.html
Re: digikam import fails
On 6/16/22 13:23, gene heskett wrote: On 6/16/22 15:42, mick crane wrote: On 2022-06-16 20:19, gene heskett wrote: The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of missing this and that despite the installation of digikam pulling in: 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 273 MB of archives. After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used. Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines spit out in the shell I launched it from. try gphoto2 ? if camera is on list http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php should you not be able to mount it as a filesystem ? I like geeqie for viewing images. mick I installed it, but: gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt install gphoto2 [sudo] password for gene: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libcdk5nc6 Suggested packages: gthumb The following NEW packages will be installed: gphoto2 libcdk5nc6 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 320 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,341 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 libcdk5nc6 amd64 5.0.20180306-3 [129 kB] Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 gphoto2 amd64 2.5.27-1 [191 kB] Fetched 320 kB in 0s (858 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libcdk5nc6:amd64. (Reading database ... 136011 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libcdk5nc6_5.0.20180306-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libcdk5nc6:amd64 (5.0.20180306-3) ... Selecting previously unselected package gphoto2. Preparing to unpack .../gphoto2_2.5.27-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gphoto2 (2.5.27-1) ... Setting up libcdk5nc6:amd64 (5.0.20180306-3) ... Setting up gphoto2 (2.5.27-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-13+deb11u3) ... -.-.-. gene@coyote:~$ gphoto2 Usage: gphoto2 [-?qvalLnPTDR] [-?|--help] [--usage] [--debug] [--debug-loglevel=STRING] [--debug-logfile=FILENAME] [-q|--quiet] [--hook-script=FILENAME] [--stdout] [--stdout-size] [--auto-detect] [--show-exif=STRING] [--show-info=STRING] [--summary] [--manual] [--about] [--storage-info] [--shell] [-v|--version] [--list-cameras] [--list-ports] [-a|--abilities] [--port=FILENAME] [--speed=SPEED] [--camera=MODEL] [--usbid=USBIDs] [--config] [--list-config] [--list-all-config] [--get-config=STRING] [--set-config=STRING] [--set-config-index=STRING] [--set-config-value=STRING] [--reset] [--keep] [--keep-raw] [--no-keep] [--wait-event=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [--wait-event-and-download=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [--capture-preview] [--show-preview] [-B|--bulb=SECONDS] [-F|--frames=COUNT] [-I|--interval=SECONDS] [--reset-interval] [--capture-image] [--trigger-capture] [--capture-image-and-download] [--capture-movie=COUNT or SECONDS] [--capture-sound] [--capture-tethered=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [-l|--list-folders] [-L|--list-files] [-m|--mkdir=DIRNAME] [-r|--rmdir=DIRNAME] [-n|--num-files] [-p|--get-file=RANGE] [-P|--get-all-files] [-t|--get-thumbnail=RANGE] [-T|--get-all-thumbnails] [--get-metadata=RANGE] [--get-all-metadata] [--upload-metadata=STRING] [--get-raw-data=RANGE] [--get-all-raw-data] [--get-audio-data=RANGE] [--get-all-audio-data] [-d|--delete-file=RANGE] [-D|--delete-all-files] [-u|--upload-file=FILENAME] [--filename=FILENAME_PATTERN] [-f|--folder=FOLDER] [-R|--recurse] [--no-recurse] [--new] [--force-overwrite] [--skip-existing] gene@coyote:~$ IOW, that didn't work either if its supposed to be gnomes answer to digikam. Next? Thanks Mick. Take care and stay well. . Cheers, Gene Heskett. Hi, I use this in a script called get_photo for downloading: #!/bin/sh gphoto2 --auto-detect --skip-existing -P Best regards, Fred
Re: digikam import fails
On 2022-06-16 16:23, gene heskett wrote: On 6/16/22 15:42, mick crane wrote: On 2022-06-16 20:19, gene heskett wrote: The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of missing this and that despite the installation of digikam pulling in: 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 273 MB of archives. After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used. Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines spit out in the shell I launched it from. try gphoto2 ? if camera is on list http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php should you not be able to mount it as a filesystem ? I like geeqie for viewing images. mick I installed it, but: gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt install gphoto2 [sudo] password for gene: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libcdk5nc6 Suggested packages: gthumb The following NEW packages will be installed: gphoto2 libcdk5nc6 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 320 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,341 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 libcdk5nc6 amd64 5.0.20180306-3 [129 kB] Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 gphoto2 amd64 2.5.27-1 [191 kB] Fetched 320 kB in 0s (858 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libcdk5nc6:amd64. (Reading database ... 136011 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libcdk5nc6_5.0.20180306-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libcdk5nc6:amd64 (5.0.20180306-3) ... Selecting previously unselected package gphoto2. Preparing to unpack .../gphoto2_2.5.27-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gphoto2 (2.5.27-1) ... Setting up libcdk5nc6:amd64 (5.0.20180306-3) ... Setting up gphoto2 (2.5.27-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-13+deb11u3) ... -.-.-. gene@coyote:~$ gphoto2 Usage: gphoto2 [-?qvalLnPTDR] [-?|--help] [--usage] [--debug] [--debug-loglevel=STRING] [--debug-logfile=FILENAME] [-q|--quiet] [--hook-script=FILENAME] [--stdout] [--stdout-size] [--auto-detect] [--show-exif=STRING] [--show-info=STRING] [--summary] [--manual] [--about] [--storage-info] [--shell] [-v|--version] [--list-cameras] [--list-ports] [-a|--abilities] [--port=FILENAME] [--speed=SPEED] [--camera=MODEL] [--usbid=USBIDs] [--config] [--list-config] [--list-all-config] [--get-config=STRING] [--set-config=STRING] [--set-config-index=STRING] [--set-config-value=STRING] [--reset] [--keep] [--keep-raw] [--no-keep] [--wait-event=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [--wait-event-and-download=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [--capture-preview] [--show-preview] [-B|--bulb=SECONDS] [-F|--frames=COUNT] [-I|--interval=SECONDS] [--reset-interval] [--capture-image] [--trigger-capture] [--capture-image-and-download] [--capture-movie=COUNT or SECONDS] [--capture-sound] [--capture-tethered=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [-l|--list-folders] [-L|--list-files] [-m|--mkdir=DIRNAME] [-r|--rmdir=DIRNAME] [-n|--num-files] [-p|--get-file=RANGE] [-P|--get-all-files] [-t|--get-thumbnail=RANGE] [-T|--get-all-thumbnails] [--get-metadata=RANGE] [--get-all-metadata] [--upload-metadata=STRING] [--get-raw-data=RANGE] [--get-all-raw-data] [--get-audio-data=RANGE] [--get-all-audio-data] [-d|--delete-file=RANGE] [-D|--delete-all-files] [-u|--upload-file=FILENAME] [--filename=FILENAME_PATTERN] [-f|--folder=FOLDER] [-R|--recurse] [--no-recurse] [--new] [--force-overwrite] [--skip-existing] gene@coyote:~$ You've obviously got GThumb installed - it **usually** comes with the Gthumb photo import tool which I suspect uses the GPhoto2 library(s). Check with apt whether it's a separate download. I use it all the time except when I am in Mate when the Caja file manager loads up my camera automatically. Do you have any desktop like Gnome or Mate ?
Re: digikam import fails [solved workaround]
On 6/16/22 16:40, mick crane wrote: On 2022-06-16 21:23, gene heskett wrote: [...] Thanks Mick. Take care and stay well. It's ages since I did anything with cameras. In the past I've taken the card out and put it in a reader does "gphoto2 --auto-detect" do anything ? --list-cameras does not list my Canon SK 420, which is a pretty decent camera, but under 2 years old. So I took out the battery and put it in the charger then pulled the card, found it in gimp, read it in, and smunched most of the quality away getting it under half a meg in jpeg. I'd post it here, but the server would puke all over itself rejecting it. So until we figure out what digikam is missing this problem is solved. mick it detect a default camera that is gone when I turn it off, but does not identify it as the Cannon SK420 it is. whats next then? If it can do a dir, I need the newest pix in it. But see above, I pulled the card and read it in gimp. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
Re: How to change lightdm background in bullseye? (additional: weird stat behaviour)
On 6/16/22, Christoph K. wrote: > Hello, > > > Part 1: lightdm background > > I've just upgraded to bullseye and would like to change the background of > the lightdm greeter. > > According to ... > https://wiki.debian.org/LightDM#Change_the_greeter.27s_background > ... I'm supposed to edit ... > /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf > > ... which I've done ... > > [greeter] > background=/usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/foo.png > user-background=/usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/foo.png Do those files exist? There's no /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/ on my machine.. This works for me $ cat lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf [greeter] background = /usr/share/desktop-base/spacefun-theme/login/background.svg <.. snip ..> > I'm suspecting my changes in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf have no effect. Try installing lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings I get a lot of error messages but it did change the background for me. > Part 2: weird stat behaviour (ext4 filesystem) > > I'm not too familiar with stat and access times, although I do believe to > have some understanding of it. But the following confuses me: Somebody with a lot more knowledge in that area needs to respond, but wasn't there a setup question about enabling that or no? .. along the lines of updating access times requires a disk write every time a file is accessed, so one can make things faster by not updating the access time. Regards, Lee
non installed printer can not be removed
Hi folks, I am struggeling with a little problem, I can not explain. A friend of mine uses a printer (Samsung SL-C480FW), which is connected to the router with wireless. However, although there are no drivers and no ppd-files installed, the printer is seen by cups (and also by system-printer-config) but can not be used (think, because the missing ppd-file). When this is installed, udev-entries and so on are set, then the printer is seen for example with ipp://192.168.*.*. However, printing does not work, although the printer gets data, but then hangs. I believe, this is a driver problem (because this appeared, since my friend got a new router (FritzBox). I hope, for this I will find a solution, so hints are welcome, buut not the reason for this thread. Much more I am interested, to know, why I can not delete the printer in CUPS or system-config-printer? Any printer I add, can be deleted, but the last entry can not be deleted. What is wrong? Why does the kernel see the correct printer, and where does it get its information? It is not connected at the USB-port, so no information could be taken from this. Any ideas? Thanks for any help! Best regards Hans
Re: digikam import fails
On 2022-06-16 21:23, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:~$ gphoto2 Usage: gphoto2 [-?qvalLnPTDR] [-?|--help] [--usage] [--debug] [--debug-loglevel=STRING] [--debug-logfile=FILENAME] [-q|--quiet] [--hook-script=FILENAME] [--stdout] [--stdout-size] [--auto-detect] [--show-exif=STRING] [--show-info=STRING] [--summary] [--manual] [--about] [--storage-info] [--shell] [-v|--version] [--list-cameras] [--list-ports] [-a|--abilities] [--port=FILENAME] [--speed=SPEED] [--camera=MODEL] [--usbid=USBIDs] [--config] [--list-config] [--list-all-config] [--get-config=STRING] [--set-config=STRING] [--set-config-index=STRING] [--set-config-value=STRING] [--reset] [--keep] [--keep-raw] [--no-keep] [--wait-event=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [--wait-event-and-download=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [--capture-preview] [--show-preview] [-B|--bulb=SECONDS] [-F|--frames=COUNT] [-I|--interval=SECONDS] [--reset-interval] [--capture-image] [--trigger-capture] [--capture-image-and-download] [--capture-movie=COUNT or SECONDS] [--capture-sound] [--capture-tethered=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [-l|--list-folders] [-L|--list-files] [-m|--mkdir=DIRNAME] [-r|--rmdir=DIRNAME] [-n|--num-files] [-p|--get-file=RANGE] [-P|--get-all-files] [-t|--get-thumbnail=RANGE] [-T|--get-all-thumbnails] [--get-metadata=RANGE] [--get-all-metadata] [--upload-metadata=STRING] [--get-raw-data=RANGE] [--get-all-raw-data] [--get-audio-data=RANGE] [--get-all-audio-data] [-d|--delete-file=RANGE] [-D|--delete-all-files] [-u|--upload-file=FILENAME] [--filename=FILENAME_PATTERN] [-f|--folder=FOLDER] [-R|--recurse] [--no-recurse] [--new] [--force-overwrite] [--skip-existing] gene@coyote:~$ IOW, that didn't work either if its supposed to be gnomes answer to digikam. Next? Thanks Mick. Take care and stay well. It's ages since I did anything with cameras. In the past I've taken the card out and put it in a reader does "gphoto2 --auto-detect" do anything ? mick
Re: digikam import fails
On 6/16/22 15:42, mick crane wrote: On 2022-06-16 20:19, gene heskett wrote: The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of missing this and that despite the installation of digikam pulling in: 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 273 MB of archives. After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used. Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines spit out in the shell I launched it from. try gphoto2 ? if camera is on list http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php should you not be able to mount it as a filesystem ? I like geeqie for viewing images. mick I installed it, but: gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt install gphoto2 [sudo] password for gene: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libcdk5nc6 Suggested packages: gthumb The following NEW packages will be installed: gphoto2 libcdk5nc6 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 320 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,341 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 libcdk5nc6 amd64 5.0.20180306-3 [129 kB] Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 gphoto2 amd64 2.5.27-1 [191 kB] Fetched 320 kB in 0s (858 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libcdk5nc6:amd64. (Reading database ... 136011 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libcdk5nc6_5.0.20180306-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libcdk5nc6:amd64 (5.0.20180306-3) ... Selecting previously unselected package gphoto2. Preparing to unpack .../gphoto2_2.5.27-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gphoto2 (2.5.27-1) ... Setting up libcdk5nc6:amd64 (5.0.20180306-3) ... Setting up gphoto2 (2.5.27-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-13+deb11u3) ... -.-.-. gene@coyote:~$ gphoto2 Usage: gphoto2 [-?qvalLnPTDR] [-?|--help] [--usage] [--debug] [--debug-loglevel=STRING] [--debug-logfile=FILENAME] [-q|--quiet] [--hook-script=FILENAME] [--stdout] [--stdout-size] [--auto-detect] [--show-exif=STRING] [--show-info=STRING] [--summary] [--manual] [--about] [--storage-info] [--shell] [-v|--version] [--list-cameras] [--list-ports] [-a|--abilities] [--port=FILENAME] [--speed=SPEED] [--camera=MODEL] [--usbid=USBIDs] [--config] [--list-config] [--list-all-config] [--get-config=STRING] [--set-config=STRING] [--set-config-index=STRING] [--set-config-value=STRING] [--reset] [--keep] [--keep-raw] [--no-keep] [--wait-event=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [--wait-event-and-download=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [--capture-preview] [--show-preview] [-B|--bulb=SECONDS] [-F|--frames=COUNT] [-I|--interval=SECONDS] [--reset-interval] [--capture-image] [--trigger-capture] [--capture-image-and-download] [--capture-movie=COUNT or SECONDS] [--capture-sound] [--capture-tethered=COUNT, SECONDS, MILLISECONDS or MATCHSTRING] [-l|--list-folders] [-L|--list-files] [-m|--mkdir=DIRNAME] [-r|--rmdir=DIRNAME] [-n|--num-files] [-p|--get-file=RANGE] [-P|--get-all-files] [-t|--get-thumbnail=RANGE] [-T|--get-all-thumbnails] [--get-metadata=RANGE] [--get-all-metadata] [--upload-metadata=STRING] [--get-raw-data=RANGE] [--get-all-raw-data] [--get-audio-data=RANGE] [--get-all-audio-data] [-d|--delete-file=RANGE] [-D|--delete-all-files] [-u|--upload-file=FILENAME] [--filename=FILENAME_PATTERN] [-f|--folder=FOLDER] [-R|--recurse] [--no-recurse] [--new] [--force-overwrite] [--skip-existing] gene@coyote:~$ IOW, that didn't work either if its supposed to be gnomes answer to digikam. Next? Thanks Mick. Take care and stay well. . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
Re: digikam import fails
On Thu 16 Jun 2022 at 20:39:55 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2022-06-16 20:19, gene heskett wrote: > > > The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of > > missing this and that despite the installation of digikam > > pulling in: > > 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > Need to get 273 MB of archives. > > After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used. > > > > Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines > > spit out in the shell I launched it from. > > try gphoto2 ? The OP wants to use digikam. You have no advice on that? > if camera is on list > http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php > should you not be able to mount it as a filesystem ? > I like geeqie for viewing images. That really nice to know. It sorts out the digikam issue? -- Brian.
Re: digikam import fails
On 2022-06-16 20:19, gene heskett wrote: The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of missing this and that despite the installation of digikam pulling in: 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 273 MB of archives. After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used. Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines spit out in the shell I launched it from. try gphoto2 ? if camera is on list http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php should you not be able to mount it as a filesystem ? I like geeqie for viewing images. mick
Re: digikam import fails
On Thu 16 Jun 2022 at 15:19:38 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just took a pix of one of my projects to send to a friend, but > when I had installed digikam to download the pix from my camera, > going thru the usual steps to access the camera, which it did as > usual, but when I had selected the pix, and tried o dl it, the album > selector window was blanked, empty and even when I typed in the > full path to the desired directory, which has around 20G of pix > already in /home/gene/Pictures, there was no response to the > return key aother than the search bar being blacked, the album > window remains blanked and the ok on the lower right of that > album window remains ghosted. > > IOW, I cannot download from the camera. How do I go about > troubleshooting this? > > The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of > missing this and that despite the installation of digikam > pulling in: > 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 273 MB of archives. > After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used. > > Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines > spit out in the shell I launched it from. Its obvious to me there are > more kde dependencies missing, that just the 261 listed. I've tried to > install some of them by the names reported, but that universally does > not exit. And I'd druther not install the rest of kde, its not stable > for me. Is this the first time you have tried this? Go for another 32 times and you could get success :). Just a suggestion, in the light of your recent experiences. -- Brian.
Re: Epson printer page counting error
On Thu 16 Jun 2022 at 13:39:13 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2022-06-16 13:31, Brian wrote: > > > Believe it or believe it not, there are other rechniques to set up a > > print queue :). > > are these "rechniques" similar to the destructions ? That is an interesting concept to explore. Let us leave it for another time. Meanwhile, we await the OP's provision of information to resolve his issue without idulging in guessing. -- Brian.
digikam import fails
Greetings all; I just took a pix of one of my projects to send to a friend, but when I had installed digikam to download the pix from my camera, going thru the usual steps to access the camera, which it did as usual, but when I had selected the pix, and tried o dl it, the album selector window was blanked, empty and even when I typed in the full path to the desired directory, which has around 20G of pix already in /home/gene/Pictures, there was no response to the return key aother than the search bar being blacked, the album window remains blanked and the ok on the lower right of that album window remains ghosted. IOW, I cannot download from the camera. How do I go about troubleshooting this? The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of missing this and that despite the installation of digikam pulling in: 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 273 MB of archives. After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used. Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines spit out in the shell I launched it from. Its obvious to me there are more kde dependencies missing, that just the 261 listed. I've tried to install some of them by the names reported, but that universally does not exit. And I'd druther not install the rest of kde, its not stable for me. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
Re: user perms
On Thu 16 Jun 2022 at 12:22:48 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote:
> David Wright writes:
>
> > As it happens, I find I have (but don't use):
>
> > $ grep -i ttyusb /lib/udev/rules.d/*
>
> I actually found this in 50-udev-default.rules:
>
> KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*[0-9]|ttymxc[0-9]*|pppox[0-9]*|ircomm[0-9]*|noz[0-9]*|rfcomm[0-9]*",
> GROUP="dialout"
>
> So that should set the group for ttySx and ttyUSBx also to dialout and
> in fact I see exactly that happening in my Debian 11 router which has
> devices ttyS0-ttyS3 and ttyUSB0-ttyUSB4:
>
> $ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* /dev/ttyS*
> crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS0
> crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 65 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS1
> crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 66 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS2
> crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 67 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS3
> crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 0 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB0
> crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 1 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB1
> crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 2 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB2
> crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 3 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB3
> crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 4 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB4
>
> I didn't find a rule which sets the perms for these to 0660 but
> something does that for me.
>
> This rule comes with the udev package itself so it should be always
> installed in a Debian installation.
>
> Still, it seems for Gene these are overwritten somehow but I don't know
> why or how. I have exactly one USB-to-serial cable I can try to plug in
> and see what happens. However it's a CP210x and I think Gene's stuff is
> FTDI.
I don't have any of these devices, so the closest I can manage is a
mouse that keeps disconnecting and reconnecting every few minutes,
which means it loses its acceleration settings.
I've run
$ udevadm monitor -k -p
and
$ udevadm monitor -u -p
in two xterms, dumping the output to files, and I've kept a copy of
the corresponding kern.log to match up with them. I need to find
time to peruse it all.
I was going to suggest to Gene to run these commands, to see where
the serial numbers of his two devices are given, and which attribute
gives them, as Gene plugs the devices into the ports.
If you have /lib/udev/rules.d/60-serial.rules, which runs after the
above, you can see some more specific rules for ttyUSB[0-9]* devices.
I need to read up on what IMPORT{builtin}="usb_id" does, as that's
a udev rule that I've not used before.
(Actually, /I/ need to read up on stuff like
IMPORT{builtin}="hwdb
'mouse:$env{ID_BUS}:v$attr{id/vendor}p$attr{id/product}:name:$attr{nam
e}:'", …
whatever that does, from 70-mouse.rules.)
But it looks as if a file /etc/udev/rules.d/60-serial.rules
could be coerced into creating symlinks called /dev/
for each device (solves the "swapping" problem), and setting
the group/permissions for the ttyUSBn itself. Of course, we
don't know what permissions /do/ work yet, from Gene's posts.
Gene needs to copy that file, and add a simple rule to do something,
anything, to check it works, like touching a file or creating a
symlink (named with a timestamp). Gene might get a feel for how udev
operates, by doing something simple like that.
Cheers,
David.
Re: user perms
On 6/16/22 05:25, Anssi Saari wrote: David Wright writes: As it happens, I find I have (but don't use): $ grep -i ttyusb /lib/udev/rules.d/* I actually found this in 50-udev-default.rules: KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*[0-9]|ttymxc[0-9]*|pppox[0-9]*|ircomm[0-9]*|noz[0-9]*|rfcomm[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout" So that should set the group for ttySx and ttyUSBx also to dialout and in fact I see exactly that happening in my Debian 11 router which has devices ttyS0-ttyS3 and ttyUSB0-ttyUSB4: $ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* /dev/ttyS* crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 65 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 66 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 67 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS3 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 0 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 1 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB1 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 2 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB2 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 3 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB3 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 4 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB4 I didn't find a rule which sets the perms for these to 0660 but something does that for me. This rule comes with the udev package itself so it should be always installed in a Debian installation. Still, it seems for Gene these are overwritten somehow but I don't know why or how. I have exactly one USB-to-serial cable I can try to plug in and see what happens. However it's a CP210x and I think Gene's stuff is >FTDI Yes, I had so much trouble with prolific crap I eventually threrw it away. $40 1998 dollars for junk. At Radio Shack of course. :( And I wish someone could tell me how to fix tbirds busted quoting, I wrote what starts with "yes" above and "I" CANNOT remove the quoting that looks like Anssi Saari wrote it. tbird is buggier than 10 day old road kill in August! I just did fix it, but extensive keyboard calisthentics were required. Thanks Anssi Saari, take care & stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
Re: user perms
On 6/16/22 03:58, Anssi Saari wrote: gene heskett writes: now my additional reply is munged, backspaces or Del's will not "take" What the heck is this vertical bar it uses for a quote level, whats wrong with > >> etc for quote indicators? There's a button containing an A overlaid by a graphical double square as the last line above the window that claims to "remove text styling" but it does nothing. Under options ->delivery format, plain text is checked, but obviously its still sending and rendering what I see as HTML. That's not the end of the bug list Just a note, in my end your post is just text: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Not HTML, not multipart/alternative with one part text and one HTML. I don't know if there's any filtering in-between, I read this list via Gmane's NNTP server. This install feels good yet, but at 36 hours uptime, I've used half the typical uptime I've managed in 30 previous installs. I have had to replace some memory, but now memtest can't be found, I guess because it is a 16 bit build, and can't be changed. But it ran ON THIS 6 core i5, probably 8 or 9 times pre bullseye. Debian 11 packages memtest86 and memtest86+ in the main repository with those package names exactly. Those are quite old and if you managed a UEFI installation they aren't bootable. So what replaces it? From the thread about its MIA status, I am not the only one wanting it or a 64 bit substitute back on the grub menu. I have a $100 bill for the talented coder who brings that or a new 64 bit from scratch version back. The commercial memtest86 v9 Pro from Passmark goes for $44 today. They have a free edition too with limited features. I now have that one installed on an sd card in a reader, works fine. I rebooted, found it in the bios, and ran it one pass, no errors. It does not!! That's what I'm screaming about. It sets the perms so only root can use them. I just plugged at least one of them in: root@coyote:/lib/udev/rules.d# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 0 Jun 15 05:31 /dev/ttyUSB0 020660. The common user can't touch it. So what IS the "approved fix" so the user CAN use it? A fix that will actually survive a reboot. That's the question asked that every reply so far has ignored. I've looked into this and I have a draft of another post about that but basically it looks like it'll amount to just "I don't know why" and "it works for me." I need to test a few things though. A rude hack to fix the permissions would be to setup /etc/rc.local and do your chgrps and/or chmods in there. Instructions at https://blog.wijman.net/enable-rc-local-in-debian-bullseye/ for example. I just did all that, so now I have an /etc/rc.local but not an rc-local but he changes from rc.local to rc-local in the middle. confusing. So which is it. I originally created an rc.local, changed it to rc-local, and back with mv. But a root@coyote:/etc# systemctl status rc-local ● rc-local.service - /etc/rc.local Compatibility Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service; enabled-runtime; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d └─debian.conf Active: active (exited) since Thu 2022-06-16 07:50:14 EDT; 19min ago Docs: man:systemd-rc-local-generator(8) Process: 49522 ExecStart=/etc/rc.local start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 764us Jun 16 07:50:14 coyote systemd[1]: Starting /etc/rc.local Compatibility... Jun 16 07:50:14 coyote systemd[1]: Started /etc/rc.local Compatibility. Which looks good. So now I put what I want in which file? in this rc.local? or do I create an rc-local and put the needed chowns, chgrps chmods in yet another new file? What I have done is unplugged them in order to delete the /dev entries, so an ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* returns this: ls: cannot access '/dev/ttyUSB*': No such file or directory Then I plugged them back in, getting this for an ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* root@coyote:/etc# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 0 Jun 16 08:18 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 1 Jun 16 08:18 /dev/ttyUSB1 Now, I'm not aware of who heyu runs as, probably gene since I'm the one running it and there is no user heyu. Now, 2 new questions: So what do I put in this rc.local to allow me, gene, to use /dev/ttyUSB0, which has the cm11a on the other side of an fdti adaptor? Then: root@coyote:/etc# grep nut group nut:x:122: root@coyote:/etc# grep nut passwd nut:x:115:122::/var/lib/nut:/usr/sbin/nologin So what do I put in this rc.local to enable nut to use /dev/ttyUSB1, which is an APC 1500 UPS. Both are returning no perms errors now gene@coyote:~$ heyu info starting heyu_relay HEYU: Can't open tty line. Check the permissions. and as root: root@coyote:/dev# /etc/init.d/nut-server start Starting nut-server (via systemctl): nut-server.service. root@coyote:/dev# /etc/init.d/nut-client start Starting nut-clien
Re: Epson printer page counting error
On 2022-06-16 13:31, Brian wrote: Believe it or believe it not, there are other rechniques to set up a print queue :). are these "rechniques" similar to the destructions ? mick
Re: Epson printer page counting error
On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 13:45:14 -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: > localhost:631 brings up a web page that lists most all manufacturers and > models. The process is the same for all cups print drivers. Using that is > what I meant as "as usual". I've never used anything else. I don't thing > anyone else does either. Believe it or believe it not, there are other rechniques to set up a print queue :). A bullseye installation is assumed. What application was used to print? A USB connection or wireless? Please give lpstat -l -e lpstat -t lpoptions -p PRINT_QUEUE_NAME -- Brian.
Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard
On 2022-06-15 09:21, Mick Ab wrote: I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have been a few occasions when the PC has failed to be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. The mouse and keyboard are frozen. Sometimes the monitor appears to be off and on one occasion it was on. I have had a separate issue which I think might be the monitor power saver communicating with PC. If I turn off the monitor but leave PC on monitor will not wake up when turned back on. disconnecting the power supply to the monitor and plugging back in resolves that. It used to be that the monitor would not turn back on after going in standby mode so I have deselected all power savers in monitor menu. so rather than hard setting the PC, try power cycle the monitor mick
How to change lightdm background in bullseye? (additional: weird stat behaviour)
Hello, Part 1: lightdm background I've just upgraded to bullseye and would like to change the background of the lightdm greeter. According to ... https://wiki.debian.org/LightDM#Change_the_greeter.27s_background ... I'm supposed to edit ... /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf ... which I've done ... [greeter] background=/usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/foo.png user-background=/usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/foo.png ... with no success. Background sticks to dark blue image with debian artwork. Before, I had already tried to get a language selector in lightdm by changing the indicators: indicators=~host;~spacer;~session;~language;ally;~clock;~power But lightdm doesn't show a language selector. I'm suspecting my changes in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf have no effect. Question 1: How do I properly change the lightdm background image? Question 2: Is lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf the right place to configure the lightdm greeter in bullseye? Part 2: weird stat behaviour (ext4 filesystem) I'm not too familiar with stat and access times, although I do believe to have some understanding of it. But the following confuses me: The question related to lightdm was: Is the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf actually read by lightdm? To find out I edited the file and restartet lightdm. "stat" didn't show any access to the file so I did a system reboot because I suspected the missing access change was due to caching. But after the reboot the file still had the old access time! (I removed addional output of the stat command): /etc/lightdm$ date Do 16. Jun 11:11:05 CEST 2022 /etc/lightdm$ stat lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf Datei: lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf Zugriff: 2022-06-16 10:43:18.769291459 +0200 FYI: "Zugriff" is access time in german Reboot was at 10:45, access time is 10:43. Is it correct to conclude that the file has not been read during bootup? Or am I overlooking something? To further elaborate I did another test on a test.txt file. Procedure: 1. touch test.txt 2. stat test.txt -> correct access time from touch 3. cat test.txt 4. stat test.txt -> access time changed due to cat - fine 5. cat test.txt 6. stat test.txt -> still the same access time as in step 4 - caching? 7. reboot 8. cat test.txt 9. stat test.txt -> STILL the same access time as in step 4 - WTF? Expectations: 1) After a reboot there is no cache to read from. 2) The cat command accesses the file. 3) Stat shows the time of "cat" in the access time stamp. But 3) does not happen. More precisely: It only happens sometimes. Question 3: Could someone please explain to me what's going on here with stat? Thanks, Christoph
Re: user perms
David Wright writes: > As it happens, I find I have (but don't use): > $ grep -i ttyusb /lib/udev/rules.d/* I actually found this in 50-udev-default.rules: KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*[0-9]|ttymxc[0-9]*|pppox[0-9]*|ircomm[0-9]*|noz[0-9]*|rfcomm[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout" So that should set the group for ttySx and ttyUSBx also to dialout and in fact I see exactly that happening in my Debian 11 router which has devices ttyS0-ttyS3 and ttyUSB0-ttyUSB4: $ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* /dev/ttyS* crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 65 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 66 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 67 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyS3 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 0 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 1 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB1 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 2 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB2 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 3 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB3 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 4 Jun 13 12:12 /dev/ttyUSB4 I didn't find a rule which sets the perms for these to 0660 but something does that for me. This rule comes with the udev package itself so it should be always installed in a Debian installation. Still, it seems for Gene these are overwritten somehow but I don't know why or how. I have exactly one USB-to-serial cable I can try to plug in and see what happens. However it's a CP210x and I think Gene's stuff is FTDI.
Re: user perms
gene heskett writes: > now my additional reply is munged, backspaces or Del's will not "take" > What the heck is this vertical bar it uses for a quote level, whats wrong > with > >> etc for quote indicators? There's a button containing an A > overlaid by a graphical double square as the last line above the window > that claims to "remove text styling" but it does nothing. Under options > ->delivery format, plain text is checked, but obviously its still sending > and rendering what I see as HTML. That's not the end of the bug list Just a note, in my end your post is just text: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Not HTML, not multipart/alternative with one part text and one HTML. I don't know if there's any filtering in-between, I read this list via Gmane's NNTP server. > This install feels good yet, but at 36 hours uptime, I've used > half the typical uptime I've managed in 30 previous installs. > I have had to replace some memory, but now memtest can't > be found, I guess because it is a 16 bit build, and can't be > changed. But it ran ON THIS 6 core i5, probably 8 or 9 times > pre bullseye. Debian 11 packages memtest86 and memtest86+ in the main repository with those package names exactly. Those are quite old and if you managed a UEFI installation they aren't bootable. > So what replaces it? From the thread about its MIA status, I > am not the only one wanting it or a 64 bit substitute back > on the grub menu. > > I have a $100 bill for the talented coder who brings that > or a new 64 bit from scratch version back. The commercial memtest86 v9 Pro from Passmark goes for $44 today. They have a free edition too with limited features. > It does not!! That's what I'm screaming about. > It sets the perms so only root can use them. I just > plugged at least one of them in: > root@coyote:/lib/udev/rules.d# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* > crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 0 Jun 15 05:31 /dev/ttyUSB0 > > 020660. The common user can't touch it. So what IS > the "approved fix" so the user CAN use it? A fix that > will actually survive a reboot. That's the question > asked that every reply so far has ignored. I've looked into this and I have a draft of another post about that but basically it looks like it'll amount to just "I don't know why" and "it works for me." I need to test a few things though. A rude hack to fix the permissions would be to setup /etc/rc.local and do your chgrps and/or chmods in there. Instructions at https://blog.wijman.net/enable-rc-local-in-debian-bullseye/ for example.
