Re: Which subdirectory for a usedr-specific executable?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Richard,

the /etc/skel/.profile add to PATH ~/bin and ~/.local/bin if they exist.

On 03/10/2024 14:51, Richard Owlett wrote:

Is there standard/recommended location for an executable to be used by only a 
one user?
In my case it should be under /home/richard/ .
But where?


hth,
Jerome




TIA

Re: internal keyboard does not work

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,




I feel some packages are missing,



You are right. More precisely, what is missing is a firmware, the

brcm/brcmfmac4364-pcie.Apple Inc.-MacBookPro15,1.bin

firmware.

Cheers,
Jerome

On my side, apt-file cannot find it on Sid.


[    5.253947] brcmfmac :03:00.0: firmware: failed to load 
brcm/brcmfmac4364-pcie.Apple Inc.-MacBookPro15,1.bin (-2)
[    5.256025] brcmfmac :03:00.0: firmware: failed to load 
brcm/brcmfmac4364-pcie.Apple Inc.-MacBookPro15,1.bin (-2)
[    5.257056] brcmfmac :03:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
brcm/brcmfmac4364-pcie.Apple Inc.-MacBookPro15,1.bin failed with error -2
[   62.807470] applesmc: probe of applesmc.768 failed with error -5
[  119.816381] applesmc: driver init failed (ret=-5)!
[  176.531800] applesmc: probe of applesmc.768 failed with error -5
[  233.062988] applesmc: driver init failed (ret=-5)!

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

[Benoit Lair]

Hi

We are still using Reiserfs for its space optimisation.
Very optimised for a lot of little files and its shrink feature is better
than with xfs
The file system is more resilient with power outage per exemple than others

So with linux 6.6 any way possible to load the module ?


Le lun. 12 août 2024, 18:43,  a écrit :

> On 8/12/24 04:09, Wesley wrote:
> > Most recent years we keep using the ext4 filesystem.
> > But years ago before ext4 we used the ReiserFS filesystem.
> > In my memory ReiserFS was a good choice for our application (many small
> files).
> > Do you anybody still use ReiserFS today? How about it compares to ext4?
>
> IIRC it got its efficiency boost by storing bits of one file in the
> allocated-but-not-full inode of another.  While true, that's more space
> efficient, good luck untangling the mess that filesystem damage makes.
>
> --
> I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq
> would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world
> against us and make ... a latter-day Arab hero assigning young soldiers
> to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator[.] -- GHWB
>
>

Re: Backup.

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,
why did you not use something as backup2l ?
Best wishes,
Jerome


On 27/06/2024 20:23, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:

Hi,

My working data is in a directory we can refer to as A. A is on a
removable flash store.  "du -hs /home/me/A" reports 3.0G.  I want a
reliable backup of most files A/*.

I created a directory "Backup" on the HDD and apply this shell
function whenever motivated.

Backup() { \
   if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
 echo "Too many arguments.";
   else
 echo "0 or 1 arguments are OK.";
 source="/home/me/A/*";
 echo "source is $source.";
 if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
   echo "0 arguments is OK.";
   destination=/home/me/Backup;
   echo "destination is $destination.";
 else
   echo "1 argument is OK.";
   destination=/home/me/$1;
   echo "destination is $destination.";
 fi;
   echo "Executing sync and rsync.";
   sync;
   rsync \
   --exclude='Trap*' \
   --exclude='*.mp3' \
   --exclude='*.mp4' \
   -auv $source $destination ;
  /bin/ls -ld $destination/MailMessages;
  printf "du -hs $destination => ";
  du -hs $destination;
   fi;
}

When the flash store fails, work since the last execution of Backup
can be lost.

In case the Backup directory on the HDD is lost or I want to see an
old file not current in A, I want backups of Backup.  This function is
applied every week or two to write to a DVD.

FilesToDVD () { \
   printf "Insert open or new DVD-R.";
   read t;
   startPath=$PWD;
   echo "startPath is $startPath";
   source=/home/me/Backup;
   echo "source is $source";
   cd $source;
   xorriso -for_backup -dev /dev/sr0 \
   -update_r . / \
   -commit \
   -toc -check_md5 failure -- \
   -eject all ;
   cd $startPath ;
   echo "  xorriso -dev /dev/sr0 -toc";
   echo "  mount -o sbsector=nn  /dev/sr0 /mnt/iso"; }
   
Finding a file as it existed months or years ago can be tedious.  For

example, find A/MailMessages as it was at 2023.02.07.  Otherwise the
backup system works well.

Now I have a pair of 500 GB external USB drives.  Large compared to my
working data of ~3 GB.  Please suggest improvements to my backup
system by exploiting these drives.  I can imagine a complete copy of A
onto an external drive for each backup; but with most files in A not
changing during the backup interval, that is inefficient.

Thanks,... Peter E.

Re: Zoom on Bookworm?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,

can we efficiently jail zoom ?

Jerome

On 19/12/2023 11:28, Bret Busby wrote:

On 19/12/23 17:53, John Conover wrote:

Does the Zoom client work on Bookworm with pipewire?

 Thanks,

 John


Are you aware of Zoom using video calls for spying on, and, collecting personal 
information from, users, causing

"The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is calling on free and open source software 
(FOSS) contributors to stop using Zoom video conferencing"

"Back in March, Zoom quietly changed its fine print to include a clause in section 10.4 that 
assigned the video-chat biz perpetual, royalty-free rights to use "customer content" 
"

?

...

Recommendation had been made, for people to switch to jitsi.


Bret Busby
Armadale
Western Australia
(UTC+0800)
.

Re: file server

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

On 12/07/2023 13:48, lina wrote:

Currently I do not have a plan to keep the data, once the data finished 
analyzing, I can just remove it.


Do you want a `scratch space` [1] ?
What can be also interesting to know is whether you can compress your data.

Best wishes,
Jerome

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_space



On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 12:26 PM Dan Ritter mailto:d...@randomstring.org>> wrote:

lina wrote:
 > Dear all,
 >
 > My computer only has 2 TB data storage capacity,
 >
 > I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data.
 >
 > I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB, and then merge them
 > into one volume?
 > or get a file server?
 > What is the best option for me, and what is the budget?

Two questions:

- do you have a backup plan in mind, or will you accept the loss
   of all data?

- how fast does new data come in, and how long do you need to
   keep it around?

-dsr-

Re: Cannot open *.asc files with gpg -- because no pinentry

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 06/01/2023 11:38, Ken Heard wrote:

When I try to do so I receive the following message:

[GNUPG:] ENC_TO 091EE1D5633F19F2 16 0
[GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED 7D605C8CDA5240843A6B9A8394D949CCE9099937 0
[GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED 7D605C8CDA5240843A6B9A8394D949CCE9099937 0
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit ELG key, ID 091EE1D5633F19F2, created 2007-12-05
"KenHeard (swimmerken) "
gpg: public key decryption failed: No pinentry
[GNUPG:] ERROR pkdecrypt_failed 67108949
[GNUPG:] BEGIN_DECRYPTION
[GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_FAILED
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
[GNUPG:] END_DECRYPTION

After an internet search I found one responder who suggested that 'the issue 
might be in the configuration of your gpg-agent'.  So I checked the contents of 
the gpg-agent.conf file.  There were only two lines:

default-cache-ttl 300
max-cache-ttl 99

At this point I ran command gpg-agent which returned 'gpg-agent running and 
available'.

Another responder said that running the following two commands worked for him:

pkill gpg-agent
gpg-agent --pinentry-program=/usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 --daemon

Before running those two commands I found that I had the following pinentries:

/etc/alternatives/pinentry*
/usr/bin/pinentry-curses*
/usr/bin/pinentry-tgt*
/etc/alternatives/pinentry-x11*

I then ran those two commands twice, for -curses and -tgt.  It may have worked 
for him but did not for me.

I finally tried to add to the gpg-agent.conf file the second of those two 
commands, also twice, but before trying to decrypt an *anc file I ran file 
pkill gpg-agent.  That arrangement did not work either.  By now I had run out 
of suggestions.

I would consequently appreciate any advice as to how to decrypt my *.anc files.

By the way, I was able to run from an Xterm in succession the commands gpg -k 
and -K, which -- without the use of any passkey -- returned information about 
my public and secret keys in succession.

Other maybe useful information: I am using Bullseye and had added to my file 
.bashrc the following two lines:

GPG_TTY=$(tty)
export GPG_TTY


Do you have to necessary privilege to play with $(tty) ?

hth,
Jerome

jupyter-qtconsole, turtle, and Xfce: unresponsive turtle console

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Debian Users,

I am playing with jupyter-qtconsole in Xfce. Debian is Debain version 11.4.
When I launch a turple from the jupyter-qtconsole, I get a turtle console as 
expected.
And I can move the turtle around. However, when I switch to another workspace 
and
then come back to the workspace having the turtle console, it appears that the 
turtle
console is unresponsive: the frame is present, but the inside contain random 
stuff
from other workspaces.
When I do the same directly from python3, the turtle console behaves as 
expected.

How can we fix this issue ?

The python3 code is:

import turtle
bob=turtle.Turtle() ## here a turtle console pop up
bob.fd(100) ## and so forth.


Thanks in advance,
best wishes,
Jerome

Re: Which Program does WebKitWebProcess belong to

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi, you want to play with apt-file.
Cheers,
Jerome

On 26/05/2022 22:43, tmcconnell...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi List,
I'm getting high CPU usage from WebKitWebProcess (50% or higher) on my
machine and would like to know how to find what is being a CPU hog, for
one. And how to report it?
Thanks in advance.
Tim

Re: User group "users"

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 21/01/2022 15:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 02:49:09PM +0100, Steve Keller wrote:

I see that on my Debian systems there is a user group "users" with GID 100,
but by default no user gets added to it.  So what is the purpose or reason
to have it?

>From old Unix installations I know the group "users" which every user was
a member of, by default.


New users have gid 100 set as their primary group by default.  So, new
users are members of the group without having to be added to the group
in /etc/groups.


This might be specific to your installation.
Usually users have by default their own group.

Cheers,
Jerome




Regards,

-Roberto

Re: downgrade qt version from 5 to 4

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 11/11/2021 14:20, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 02:10:40PM +0100, lina wrote:

Thanks all for the input. My problem originated from after the system
upgrade to bullseye, the gaussian view (gview) won't be able to show the
result file.


actually gview stands for G[tk] view (distributed in gvim package)


As gview is an essential part in my work, these days my work is stranded
due to it. I don't know how to fix it. Honestly.


If this program doesn't work under bullseye, but is known to work under
buster, then I see three main courses of action from which you might
choose:

1) Buy a new computer, install buster on it, and use gview on this.


you can also consider a remote computer.



2) Install buster inside a chroot, or a virtual machine, or some other
virtual layering technology, on your bullseye computer.  Run gview
within the virtual buster environment.


This looks the best solution here (for short and long term):
https://wiki.debian.org/Schroot



3) Reinstall buster instead of bullseye on your current machine.



4) dual boot: Buster / Bulleye (but heavy, so to avoid).



Once you've restored your ability to do your work, *then* you can try
to pursue long-term solutions so that you aren't stuck with a perpetual
out-of-date buster environment for this one program.



Cheers,
Jerome

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Re: downgrade qt version from 5 to 4

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 10/11/2021 09:37, lina wrote:

Hi all,

In order to have avogadro instead of avogadro2.

I intend to downgrade qt5 to qt4.


You are looking for trouble here.

Jerome



But I can't find the qt4 snapshot from http://snapshot.debian.org/ 
<http://snapshot.debian.org/>

Thanks again for your help, lina


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Re: Package: nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 10/11/2021 09:16, lina wrote:

I use the xfce4.

Shall I consider changing to the gnome in order to get this problem solved?


I guess it is a lower level issue.

You may try Debian Live on your box to get a better idea.

Cheers,
Jerome


Thanks,

On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 5:35 PM Greg Wooledge mailto:g...@wooledge.org>> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 04:15:49PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
 > On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 02:51:33PM +0100, lina wrote:
 > > Can I have a system with both X-session and the nvidia-driver
 > > as gaussian view requires
 > >
 > > Gaussview must be run in an X-windows session. Details for controlling 
the
 > > application are provided in the materials found in the Resources 
section.
 > >
 >
 > If you are running Bullseye [Debian 11] and GNOME, I think it defaults
 > to using Waylan - if you are at the login prompt, you can choose which
 > session is loaded by clicking on the cogwheel.

Wayland, with a "d".  This is also true for Debian 10 (buster).



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Re: which package is good for making poster

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

I guess she meant `academic poster' not `decorative poster'.
Doing `academic poster' with a LaTeX package allow to share
`LaTeX code' between articles, presentations, posters, ...

my two cents,
Jerome

On 02/11/2021 19:32, mick crane wrote:

On 2021-11-02 14:09, lina wrote:

Thanks all,

I will check one by one and see how it works.


Posters are usually a picture and some text.
It doesn't have to be like that but normally it is.
Do picture in Gimp, make transparent background if don't want in a box.
Scribus, make image frame, import image, fit image to frame.
make text box, write some text.
mick


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Re: which package is good for making poster

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 02/11/2021 11:29, Jerome BENOIT wrote:

Hello,

On 02/11/2021 10:45, lina wrote:

Hi all,

I have to prepare a poster,

I wonder which package is good for this work,


You may consider the beamerposter LaTeX package.


Actually, I recently used the tikzposter LaTeX package:
https://usermanual.wiki/Document/tikzpostermanual.44268497/html
https://roboticsconference.org/information/sample-poster2.pdf

However I am not sure it is still maintained.



  I can print it out in several papers and attach them together later.



If transportation of A0 poster is an issue,
an alternative is to print a foldable fabric poster [1]


The classical tube remains a good option.


Jerome




Thanks very much for your advice


hth,
Jerome


[1] 
https://www.posterpresentations.com/what-is-a-foldable-fabric-research-poster.html

Re: which package is good for making poster

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

On 02/11/2021 10:45, lina wrote:

Hi all,

I have to prepare a poster,

I wonder which package is good for this work,


You may consider the beamerposter LaTeX package.

 I can print it out in several papers and attach them together later.



If transportation of A0 poster is an issue,
an alternative is to print a foldable fabric poster [1]



Thanks very much for your advice


hth,
Jerome


[1] 
https://www.posterpresentations.com/what-is-a-foldable-fabric-research-poster.html

Re: how to avoid the terminal overlap

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi, have you tried the basic xterm ?
Cheers, Jerome

On 26/10/2021 16:08, lina wrote:

Hi,

Once upgraded to the new system, I found that they would gather the same app in 
one tab.

Such as Xfce terminal all in one, I want them to be listed one by one, not to 
be degenerated into one.

Thanks for your suggestions, and sorry for the description, I don't know what 
is the best way to describe it.

Best regards, lina

Re: computer screen blink

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi Again,
nouveau failed to load some firmware.

On 22/10/2021 11:40, lina wrote:

# dmesg | grep -i nouveau
[    1.656164] fb0: switching to nouveaufb from EFI VGA
[    1.656250] nouveau :01:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[    1.657164] nouveau :01:00.0: NVIDIA GK208B (b06070b1)
[    1.766995] nouveau :01:00.0: bios: version 80.28.78.00.30
[    1.767490] nouveau :01:00.0: fb: 2048 MiB DDR3
[    1.778993] nouveau :01:00.0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT 
domain=0x000d address=0x0 flags=0x]
[    3.117074] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 2048 MiB
[    3.117075] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
[    3.117076] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0
[    3.117077] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.0
[    3.117078] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000f02 00020030
[    3.117078] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02011f62 00020010
[    3.117079] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 02022f10 
[    3.117080] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 1031
[    3.117080] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 2161
[    3.117081] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 02: 0200
[    3.117401] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer copies
[    3.369837] nouveau :01:00.0: DRM: allocated 1920x1080 fb: 0x8, bo 
fd740eca
[    3.369966] fbcon: nouveaudrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    3.417039] nouveau :01:00.0: [drm] fb0: nouveaudrmfb frame buffer device
[    3.432556] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for :01:00.0 on 
minor 0
[    4.294574] snd_hda_intel :01:00.1: bound :01:00.0 (ops 
nv50_audio_component_bind_ops [nouveau])
[   52.719911] nouveau :01:00.0: firmware: failed to load 
nouveau/nv106_fuc084 (-2)
[   52.719918] nouveau :01:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
nouveau/nv106_fuc084 failed with error -2
[   52.719926] nouveau :01:00.0: firmware: failed to load 
nouveau/nv106_fuc084d (-2)
[   52.719928] nouveau :01:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
nouveau/nv106_fuc084d failed with error -2
[   52.719930] nouveau :01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[   52.719931] nouveau :01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19
[16000.312421] nouveau :01:00.0: gr: TRAP ch 2 [007fb03000 Xorg[2420]]
[16000.312434] nouveau :01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC0/MP trap: global  [] 
warp 3c0009 [ILLEGAL_INSTR_ENCODING]
[16000.332583] nouveau :01:00.0: fifo: fault 00 [READ] at 009f05b4 
engine 00 [GR] client 0d [GPC0/GCC] reason 00 [PDE] on channel 2 [007fb03000 
Xorg[2420]]
[16000.332591] nouveau :01:00.0: fifo: channel 2: killed
[16000.332593] nouveau :01:00.0: fifo: runlist 0: scheduled for recovery
[16000.332597] nouveau :01:00.0: fifo: engine 0: scheduled for recovery
[16000.332603] nouveau :01:00.0: fifo: engine 6: scheduled for recovery
[16000.332626] nouveau :01:00.0: Xorg[2420]: channel 2 killed!
[16014.029755] nouveau :01:00.0: firmware: failed to load 
nouveau/nv106_fuc084 (-2)
[16014.029764] nouveau :01:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
nouveau/nv106_fuc084 failed with error -2
[16014.029782] nouveau :01:00.0: firmware: failed to load 
nouveau/nv106_fuc084d (-2)
[16014.029786] nouveau :01:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
nouveau/nv106_fuc084d failed with error -2
[16014.029789] nouveau :01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[16014.029792] nouveau :01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19
[86845.159048] WARNING: CPU: 109 PID: 897 at 
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif/vmm.c:68 nvif_vmm_put+0x6a/0x80 [nouveau]
[86845.159209]  x_tables autofs4 ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 crc32c_generic 
hid_apple uas usb_storage sd_mod hid_generic usbhid hid nouveau mxm_wmi nvme 
video ahci ttm libahci nvme_core xhci_pci drm_kms_helper libata t10_pi 
crc32_pclmul igb xhci_hcd cec crc32c_intel crc_t10dif e1000e dca 
crct10dif_generic scsi_mod crct10dif_pclmul ptp drm usbcore crct10dif_common 
pps_core i2c_algo_bit i2c_piix4 usb_common wmi button [last unloaded: cpuid]
[86845.159348] Workqueue: events nouveau_cli_work [nouveau]
[86845.159380] RIP: 0010:nvif_vmm_put+0x6a/0x80 [nouveau]
[86845.159439]  nouveau_vma_del+0x78/0xc0 [nouveau]
[86845.159480]  nouveau_gem_object_delete_work+0x36/0x60 [nouveau]
[86845.159526]  nouveau_cli_work+0xcc/0x120 [nouveau]

  #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1 (2021-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 11:23 AM Jerome BENOIT mailto:sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net>> wrote:

Hi Lina, so you are mainly playing with a server and you are certnaily used 
an external monitor.
Have you tried with a totally different monitor ?
Are using a VGA terminal or Xorg windows ?
What does dmesg gives against nouveau ?
As root:
# dmesg | grep -i nouveau
What is you actual kernel:
# uname -a
Best whises,
Jerome


On 22/10/2021 10:09, lina wrote:
 > Hi Jerome,
 >
 > It is not a Mac computer.
 >
 > It has only one System, Linux.
 >
  

Re: computer screen blink

[Jerome BENOIT]

My mistake, you are using the stable Debian:
you may replace the buster-backports by  bullseye-backports
Jerome

On 22/10/2021 11:47, Jerome BENOIT wrote:

Hi Lina,
your Debian is actually the old-stable (Buster).
You may consider to upgrade to the new stable (Bullseye)
since you seem to use recent hardware.
Jerome

On 22/10/2021 11:38, lina wrote:

Hi Andrew,

#--#
#                   OFFICIAL DEBIAN REPOS
#--#

## Debian Main Repos
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ <http://deb.debian.org/debian/> stable main 
contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ <http://deb.debian.org/debian/> stable 
main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ <http://deb.debian.org/debian/> 
stable-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ <http://deb.debian.org/debian/> 
stable-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security 
<http://deb.debian.org/debian-security> stable/updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security 
<http://deb.debian.org/debian-security> stable/updates main

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian <http://ftp.debian.org/debian> 
buster-backports main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian <http://ftp.debian.org/debian> 
buster-backports main

#--#
#                      UNOFFICIAL  REPOS
#--#

## 3rd Party Binary Repos
###Debian Multimedia
deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://www.deb-multimedia.org 
<https://www.deb-multimedia.org> bullseye main non-free


I have just installed the firmware-misc-nonfree and
firmware-linux-nonfree and nvidia-driver.

Re: computer screen blink

[Jerome BENOIT]

              fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic
 > sep mtr
 >                                  r pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx 
fxsr
 > sse s
 >                                  se2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt 
pdpe1gb
 > rdtsc
 >                                  p lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl
 > nonstop_tsc cpu
 >                                  id extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq
 > monitor
 >                                   ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe 
popcnt
 > aes
 >                                  xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy
 > svm ex
 >                                  tapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse
 > 3dnowpre
 >                                  fetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext
 > perfctr_c
 >                                  ore perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx
 > cpb cat
 >                                  _l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate sme ssbd mba sev 
ibpb
 > stib
 >                                  p vmmcall sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep
 > bmi2 c
 >                                  qm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb
 > sha_ni
 >                                   xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc
 > cqm_occ
 >                                  up_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local 
clzero
 > irper
 >                                  f xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt 
lbrv
 > svm_l
 >                                  ock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean
 > flushbyasid
 >                                  decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold 
avic
 > v_vm
 >                                  save_vmload vgif umip rdpid 
overflow_recov
 > succ
 >                                  or smca
 >
 >
 > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:04 AM Jerome BENOIT <
 > sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net <mailto:sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net>> 
wrote:
 >
 > > Hi,
 > > you may fist determine if it is a hardware issue or a software issue.
 > > Some Mac screens are known to flicker after a while.
 > > What is your computer ? Can you boot on Windows/MacOS to see if the 
same
 > > thing happens ?
 > > Knowing your hardware may help a lot.
 > > hth,
 > > Jerome
 > >
 > > On 21/10/2021 10:51, lina wrote:
 > > > k10temp-pci-00c3
 > > > Adapter: PCI adapter
 > > > Tctl:         +62.6°C
 > > > Tdie:         +62.6°C
 > > > Tccd1:        +45.2°C
 > > > Tccd2:        +62.8°C
 > > > Tccd3:        +60.8°C
 > > > Tccd4:        +45.8°C
 > > > Tccd5:        +43.8°C
 > > > Tccd6:        +45.2°C
 > > > Tccd7:        +43.5°C
 > > > Tccd8:        +43.5°C
 > > >
 > > > nvme-pci-4800
 > > > Adapter: PCI adapter
 > > > Composite:    +34.9°C  (low  =  -0.1°C, high = +89.8°C)
 > > >                         (crit = +94.8°C)
 > > >
 > > > nouveau-pci-0100
 > > > Adapter: PCI adapter
 > > > GPU core:    912.00 mV (min =  +0.80 V, max =  +1.19 V)
 > > > temp1:        +34.0°C  (high = +95.0°C, hyst =  +3.0°C)
 > > >                         (crit = +105.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)
 > > >                         (emerg = +135.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)
 > > >
 > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 3:22 PM Andrew M.A. Cater mailto:amaca...@einval.com>
 > > <mailto:amaca...@einval.com <mailto:amaca...@einval.com>>> wrote:
 > > >
 > > >     On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 02:42:11PM +0200, lina wrote:
 > > >      > Hi all,
 > > >      >
 > > >      > After using the computer for a long while, my screen will 
blink.
 > > >      >
 > > >      > It has been months since the last time I upgraded the system.
 > > >      >
 > > >      > I don't know how to start checking, every time I have to 
reboot
 > > the
 > > >      > computer,
 > > >      >
 > > >      > would be great to get your advice,
 > > >      >
 > > >      > thanks,
 > > >
 > > >     First things first: update your computer. Security fixes and 
fixes
 > > for
 > > >     other problems come out all the time.
 > > >
 > > >     What Debian version are you running?
 > > >
 > > >     On what sort of computer?
 > > >
 > > >     Do you have screensavers or similar kicking in?
 > > >
 > > >     is there a temperature issue?
 > > >
 > > >     Are there logs?
 > > >
 > > >     A little more information would be helpful.
 > > >
 > > >     All the very best, as ever,
 > > >
 > > >     Andy Cater
 > > >
 > >
 > >

Re: computer screen blink

[Jerome BENOIT]

: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled v
                                  ia prctl and seccomp
Vulnerability Spectre v1:        Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user
                                   pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2:        Mitigation; Full AMD retpoline, IBPB conditiona
                                  l, STIBP conditional, RSB filling
Vulnerability Srbds:             Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort:   Not affected
Flags:                           fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtr
                                  r pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse 
s
                                  se2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb 
rdtsc
                                  p lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc 
cpu
                                  id extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq 
monitor
                                   ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes
                                  xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm 
ex
                                  tapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 
3dnowpre
                                  fetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext 
perfctr_c
                                  ore perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb 
cat
                                  _l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate sme ssbd mba sev ibpb 
stib
                                  p vmmcall sev_es fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 
c
                                  qm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb 
sha_ni
                                   xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc 
cqm_occ
                                  up_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero 
irper
                                  f xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd arat npt lbrv 
svm_l
                                  ock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid
                                  decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic 
v_vm
                                  save_vmload vgif umip rdpid overflow_recov 
succ
                                  or smca


On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:04 AM Jerome BENOIT mailto:sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net>> wrote:

Hi,
you may fist determine if it is a hardware issue or a software issue.
Some Mac screens are known to flicker after a while.
What is your computer ? Can you boot on Windows/MacOS to see if the same 
thing happens ?
Knowing your hardware may help a lot.
hth,
Jerome

On 21/10/2021 10:51, lina wrote:
 > k10temp-pci-00c3
 > Adapter: PCI adapter
 > Tctl:         +62.6°C
 > Tdie:         +62.6°C
 > Tccd1:        +45.2°C
 > Tccd2:        +62.8°C
 > Tccd3:        +60.8°C
 > Tccd4:        +45.8°C
 > Tccd5:        +43.8°C
 > Tccd6:        +45.2°C
 > Tccd7:        +43.5°C
 > Tccd8:        +43.5°C
 >
 > nvme-pci-4800
 > Adapter: PCI adapter
 > Composite:    +34.9°C  (low  =  -0.1°C, high = +89.8°C)
 >                         (crit = +94.8°C)
 >
 > nouveau-pci-0100
 > Adapter: PCI adapter
 > GPU core:    912.00 mV (min =  +0.80 V, max =  +1.19 V)
 > temp1:        +34.0°C  (high = +95.0°C, hyst =  +3.0°C)
 >                         (crit = +105.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)
 >                         (emerg = +135.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)
 >
 > On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 3:22 PM Andrew M.A. Cater mailto:amaca...@einval.com> <mailto:amaca...@einval.com 
<mailto:amaca...@einval.com>>> wrote:
 >
 >     On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 02:42:11PM +0200, lina wrote:
 >      > Hi all,
 >      >
 >      > After using the computer for a long while, my screen will blink.
 >      >
 >      > It has been months since the last time I upgraded the system.
 >      >
 >      > I don't know how to start checking, every time I have to reboot 
the
 >      > computer,
 >      >
 >      > would be great to get your advice,
 >      >
 >      > thanks,
 >
 >     First things first: update your computer. Security fixes and fixes 
for
 >     other problems come out all the time.
 >
 >     What Debian version are you running?
 >
 >     On what sort of computer?
 >
 >     Do you have screensavers or similar kicking in?
 >
 >     is there a temperature issue?
 >
 >     Are there logs?
 >
 >     A little more information would be helpful.
 >
 >     All the very best, as ever,
 >
 >     Andy Cater
 >

Re: computer screen blink

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,
you may fist determine if it is a hardware issue or a software issue.
Some Mac screens are known to flicker after a while.
What is your computer ? Can you boot on Windows/MacOS to see if the same thing 
happens ?
Knowing your hardware may help a lot.
hth,
Jerome

On 21/10/2021 10:51, lina wrote:

k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Tctl:         +62.6°C
Tdie:         +62.6°C
Tccd1:        +45.2°C
Tccd2:        +62.8°C
Tccd3:        +60.8°C
Tccd4:        +45.8°C
Tccd5:        +43.8°C
Tccd6:        +45.2°C
Tccd7:        +43.5°C
Tccd8:        +43.5°C

nvme-pci-4800
Adapter: PCI adapter
Composite:    +34.9°C  (low  =  -0.1°C, high = +89.8°C)
                        (crit = +94.8°C)

nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
GPU core:    912.00 mV (min =  +0.80 V, max =  +1.19 V)
temp1:        +34.0°C  (high = +95.0°C, hyst =  +3.0°C)
                        (crit = +105.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)
                        (emerg = +135.0°C, hyst =  +5.0°C)

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 3:22 PM Andrew M.A. Cater mailto:amaca...@einval.com>> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 02:42:11PM +0200, lina wrote:
 > Hi all,
 >
 > After using the computer for a long while, my screen will blink.
 >
 > It has been months since the last time I upgraded the system.
 >
 > I don't know how to start checking, every time I have to reboot the
 > computer,
 >
 > would be great to get your advice,
 >
 > thanks,

First things first: update your computer. Security fixes and fixes for
other problems come out all the time.

What Debian version are you running?

On what sort of computer?

Do you have screensavers or similar kicking in?

is there a temperature issue?

Are there logs?

A little more information would be helpful.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy Cater

Re: Debian

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 19/10/2021 13:50, courtneyxshort wrote:

So there is no possible way to support Debian?


Currently there is no easy way to install Debian (or any Linux based 
distribution) on recent Macs.
People are working on porting the Linux kernel on them, but it is not a one-day 
job.
As noticed on the Debian-User list, you must be more specific on what you 
really want to do:
technical terms are here important.
Best, Jerome






-- Original Message --
From: "Jerome BENOIT" 
To: "courtneyxshort" ; 
debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, 19 Oct, 21 At 12:45
Subject: Re: Debian

Hi Courtney,
latest Mac are not well, if not at all, supported by Linux.
You may try to install Debian on a PC (or an old supported mac) instead.
hth,
Jerome

On 19/10/2021 13:11, courtneyxshort wrote:
Hello,


I am a Computer Science Masters student and part of my degree involves me 
downloading Debian on my Mac. I have tried this countless times and I have been 
unsuccessful. I've watched Youtube videos/ read the information on your website 
and I am still unable to do this.


Is this something you could please help me with? I would be so grateful.


Courtney

Re: Debian

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi Courtney,
latest Mac are not well, if not at all, supported by Linux.
You may try to install Debian on a PC (or an old supported mac) instead.
hth,
Jerome

On 19/10/2021 13:11, courtneyxshort wrote:

Hello,


I am a Computer Science Masters student and part of my degree involves me 
downloading Debian on my Mac. I have tried this countless times and I have been 
unsuccessful. I've watched Youtube videos/ read the information on your website 
and I am still unable to do this.


Is this something you could please help me with? I would be so grateful.


Courtney

Re: Chemfig Latex compile program

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Lina, can you provide a more minimal sample that reproduce the error ?
Best wishes,
Jerome

On 08/10/2021 15:59, lina wrote:

Hi,

When I updated the system, the following .tex code does not work, it shows the 
error likes this:

(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/chemformula/chemformula.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xfrac/xfrac.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xtemplate/xtemplate.sty))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/units/nicefrac.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)))
! Undefined control sequence.
*l.24 \setdoublesep
                   {0.2 em}  % 'Bond Spacing'*


\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1997/12/01]
\documentclass[
     journal=jacsat,
     manuscript=article
     ]{achemso}

\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage{longtable,booktabs}
\usepackage[table, svgnames, dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[first=0,last=9]{lcg}


\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{chemfig,chemmacros}
%\chemsetup[chemformula]{format=\sffamily}
\usepackage{chemformula}
\renewcommand*\printatom[1]{\ensuremath{\mathsf{#1}}}

\setdoublesep{0.2 em}  % 'Bond Spacing'
\setatomsep{1.45 em}    % 'Fixed Length'
\setbondoffset{0.1 em} % 'Margin Width'
\newcommand{\bondwidth}{0.08 em} % 'Line Width'
\setbondstyle{line width = \bondwidth}
\setcrambond{2pt}{}{}

\usetikzlibrary{decorations}
\pgfdeclaredecoration{ddbond}{initial}{
   \state{initial}[width=4pt]{
     \pgfpathlineto{\pgfpoint{4pt}{0pt}}
     %\pgfpathmoveto{\pgfpoint{2pt}{2pt}}
     \pgfpathmoveto{\pgfpoint{1pt}{2pt}}
     \pgfpathlineto{\pgfpoint{2pt}{2pt}}
    \pgfpathmoveto{\pgfpoint{3pt}{2pt}}
     \pgfpathlineto{\pgfpoint{4pt}{2pt}}
     \pgfpathmoveto{\pgfpoint{4pt}{0pt}}
   }
   \state{final}{
     \pgfpathlineto{\pgfpointdecoratedpathlast}
   }
}


\begin{document}

\end{document}

Re: Executar um programa no modo gráfico no momento da inicialização do Debian

[Jerome BENOIT]

Bonjour, please note that is an English spoken list.
Best wishes, Jerome

On 04/10/2021 15:14, Amarildo Machoski wrote:

Bom dia...

Primeiramente gostaria de agradecer em participar, espero também porder 
colaborar.

Como é a primeira vez que estou mandando uma dúvida não sei se estou fazendo de 
modo correto enviando este e-mail.

Estou voltando a utuilizar o Linux e escolhi o Debian para utilizar aqui na 
empresa. Tenho algum conhecimento com Linux mas de muito tempo atrás.

1) Instalaei a versão 11 em um PC e rodo somente Linux neste PC

2) Sou programador pascal, desenvolvi um programa e gostaria que ao startar o 
Debian , este programa desenvolvido por mim abrisse em seguida na tela.

Encontrei alguma coisa na internet falando sobre

"Sessão de inicialização" . Porém não consegui chegar nessa tal de sessão..  se 
este for o caminho eu precisaria de um passo a passo.

Até porque simplismente instalei o Debian, mas não sei se para ter essa sessão 
disponível ficou faltando instalar algo.

Peço desculpas se não consegui transmitir minha dúvida de modo claro.

Se alguém puder me auxiliar, ficarei muito grato.

Re: LaTeX - Newer REVTEX on Debian ?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

my guess was that the bbl must be updated. Namely,
compose with apsrev4-2.bst (or one among the others).
I would check which one is actually used in the aux or blg file,
and I would check which one is actually pickup with kpsewhich(1).
For instance, you can try from a terminal:

kpsewhich -progname bibtex apsrev4-2.bst

You can also try first to compose (with latexmk for example) the examples
provided by REVTeX in order to check your installation.

hth,
Jerome



On 04/07/2021 06:34, Robbi Nespu wrote:

I not sure how to update bst. Could you show me how?

Re: LaTeX - Newer REVTEX on Debian ?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,

this looks as a bibtex issue: did you update the bst ?

Otherwise, did you try to compose out of TeX Studio, for instance with command 
lines or latexmk ?

Cheers,
Jerome

On 28/06/2021 03:05, Robbi Nespu wrote:

On 6/27/21 2:41 PM, Robbi Nespu wrote:

Issuing bug on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990360


I trying to install it myself, where someone said there is a way how to 
override it

$ wget 
https://mirrors.concertpass.com/tex-archive/install/macros/latex/contrib/revtex.tds.zip
$ sudo unzip ~/Downloads/TeX/revtex.tds.zip -d /usr/local/share/texmf
$ sudo mktexlsr /usr/local/share/texmf
$ sudo texhash

But when I run TeX Studio, it still throwing me same issue.


line 29: Extra \endgroup. \begin{document}
line 29: Missing \begin{document}. \begin{document}
: Failed to recognize \@vspace, \@vspacer, \@no@pgbk, \@newline, and \\; no 
patches applied. Please get a more up-to-date class, .
line 101: Citation `feyn54' on page 1 undefined
line 102: Citation `witten2001' on page 1 undefined
line 102: Citation `epr' on page 1 undefined
line 102: Citation `Bire82' on page 1 undefined
line 106: Citation `feyn54' on page 1 undefined
line 106: Citation `witten2001' on page 1 undefined
line 106: Citation `epr' on page 1 undefined
line 106: Citation `Berman1983' on page 1 undefined
line 107: Citation `epr' on page 1 undefined
line 107: Citation `feyn54' on page 1 undefined
line 107: Citation `Bire82' on page 1 undefined
line 107: Citation `Berman1983' on page 1 undefined
line 134: Citation `Note1' on page 2 undefined
line 457: Citation `feyn54' on page 5 undefined
: No file aip-cp-samp.bbl.


Any input regarding this are welcome.

Re: Newcomer Problem: Synaptic

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Das,

On 03/01/2020 13:09, das wrote:
>>
>> You are mixing Ubuntu with Debian here: we cannot install Ubuntu packages on 
>> Debian (and vice versa).
>> You have to choose either Debian or Ubuntu. If you want to play with ppa 
>> stuff, you must choose Ubuntu.
>> If you want to stick to Debian and install the PPA material, you may to 
>> consider to build your own Debian
>> packages from the Debian source that might be provided by PPA. This might be 
>> a fluid process or not.
>>
> 
> Thank you Jerome for this rapid response. I have understood what you
> said, but I do not know how to solve this problem.
> 
> I do know nothing about Debian or Ubuntu. For a little less than two
> decades I was using Fedora. So, please give me some practical
> suggestion.
> 
> This is the content of my '/etc/apt/sources.list':
> 
> <<
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
> 
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib 
> non-free
> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main
> contrib non-free
> 
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
>>>

your sources.list  is sane.

Do you have any file in `/etc/apt/sources.list.d' ?


> 
> I am getting no mention of Ubuntu here. But, still I am getting that
> error message about 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu
> focal InRelease' from Synaptic. How to correct this error?

PPA stuff is foreign to Debian: at one point some ubuntu material was introduce 
either by you
or somewhere else (in thsi case, it is a bug).
Ubuntu is build upon Debian, and bring its own stuff and policy. It is also 
more oriented
to regular user. But coming from Fedora, I guess that you are familiar with 
UN*X.

I would forget synpatic and use the command interface tools: aptidute(1), or 
better apt(1)
(along sudo  or as root). I am not a fan of graphical interfaces.



> 
> Thanks
> Das
> 

Re: Newcomer Problem: Synaptic

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Das,

On 03/01/2020 12:06, das wrote:
> Hello Friends:
> 
> I am using Debian for four or five days only and obviously I did
> something stupide while installing and trying to learn the system.
> 
> When I am using Synaptic can clicking 'update', it is giving me this
> error message
> <<
> GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu focal
> InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the
> public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 83FBA1751378B444The repository
> 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease' is
> not signed.
>>>
> 
> How to solve it?

You are mixing Ubuntu with Debian here: we cannot install Ubuntu packages on 
Debian (and vice versa).
You have to choose either Debian or Ubuntu. If you want to play with ppa stuff, 
you must choose Ubuntu.
If you want to stick to Debian and install the PPA material, you may to 
consider to build your own Debian
packages from the Debian source that might be provided by PPA. This might be a 
fluid process or not.

hth, Jerome

> 
> Thanks in Advance
> 
> das
> Kolkata, WB, India
> http://ddts.randomink.org/
> 

hyperlinks in PDF open thunderbird instead of firefox

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello All,

I have just noticed that when I click on an hyperlink in a PDF then thunderbird 
shows up instead of firefox.
I guess it s related to the recent update of thunderbird.
What is the best way to fix this annoying issue ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

plotutils: graph -TX: small

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi, I am using graph from the plotutils(1) package in order to have a quick 
plot.
The X output format is small on my hightresolution screen (MacBookPro retina):
how can I make it bigger ? I am looking for a permanent configuration.
Thanks in advance, Jerome

merkaartor: annoying merkaartor.log in HOME

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

each time I read an OSM data file with merkaartor,
a (very) annoying merkaartor.log is let in my HOME directory.
How can we get rid of it ? or get it elsewhere ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

Re: How can we check that a compressed file is rsyncable ?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Etienne, thanks for your reply.

On 22/06/2019 16:35, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Jerome Benoit, on 2019-06-22:
>> How can we check that a compressed file is rsyncable ?
>>
>> In fact I would like to know if tarball compress with plzip
>> are rsyncable ?
> 
> Good Day,
> 
> If by "rsyncable", you mean "can be transferred by rsync", then
> yes, like most files.  :)

Aaah !

> 
> If you wonder if the delta-transfer algorithm will be in use,
> although I have not tested directly plzip, chances are the
> compression will not enable it.


I was refering to the long option --rsyncable of gzip(1).
So, in fact the keyword I was looking for is delta-transfer .

> 
> 
> If you wish to assess the efficiency of the delta-transfer, use
> the option "--stats".  At first transfer of the current source
> code of rsync, repacked:
> 
>   $ rsync --stats -a rsync-3.1.3.tar.xz  192.168.1.101:
>   
>   Number of files: 1 (reg: 1)
>   Number of created files: 1 (reg: 1)
>   Number of deleted files: 0
>   Number of regular files transferred: 1
>   Total file size: 676,984 bytes
>   Total transferred file size: 676,984 bytes
>   Literal data: 676,984 bytes
>   Matched data: 0 bytes
>   File list size: 0
>   File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
>   File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
>   Total bytes sent: 677,262
>   Total bytes received: 35
>   
>  >>>>>> sent 677,262 bytes  received 35 bytes  43,696.58 bytes/sec
>   total size is 676,984  speedup is 1.00
> 
> Then I add an empty "toto" file, repack, and see changes:
> 
>   $ rsync --stats -a rsync-3.1.3.tar.xz  192.168.1.101:
>   
>   Number of files: 1 (reg: 1)
>   Number of created files: 0
>   Number of deleted files: 0
>   Number of regular files transferred: 1
>   Total file size: 677,000 bytes
>   Total transferred file size: 677,000 bytes
>  >>>>>> Literal data: 677,000 bytes
>  >>>>>> Matched data: 0 bytes
>   File list size: 0
>   File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
>   File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
>   Total bytes sent: 677,278
>   Total bytes received: 5,015
>   
>  >>>>>> sent 677,278 bytes  received 5,015 bytes  454,862.00 bytes/sec
>   total size is 677,000  speedup is 0.99
> 
> In the case of tar archive compressed with XZ's LZMA2, the delta
> transfer is not in use, the whole file is resent.  (The
> bandwidth increase here is most likely related to the drive
> spinup time at first transfer, the target was a low end laptop.)
> 
> When delta transfer is in use, given a file with the following
> properties at first transfer :
> 
>   $ rsync --stats -aSH rsync_3.1.3-6.dsc 192.168.1.101:
>   
>   Number of files: 1 (reg: 1)
>   Number of created files: 1 (reg: 1)
>   Number of deleted files: 0
>   Number of regular files transferred: 1
>   Total file size: 1,877 bytes
>   Total transferred file size: 1,877 bytes
>   Literal data: 1,877 bytes
>   Matched data: 0 bytes
>   File list size: 0
>   File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
>   File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
>   Total bytes sent: 1,993
>   Total bytes received: 35
>   
>  >>>>>> sent 1,993 bytes  received 35 bytes  1,352.00 bytes/sec
>   total size is 1,877  speedup is 0.93
> 
> append a line with "toto" at the end of file, resend, and you
> should see a non-zero value for matched data:
> 
>   $ rsync --stats -aSH rsync_3.1.3-6.dsc 192.168.1.101:
>   
>   Number of files: 1 (reg: 1)
>   Number of created files: 0
>   Number of deleted files: 0
>   Number of regular files transferred: 1
>   Total file size: 1,884 bytes
>   Total transferred file size: 1,884 bytes
>  >>>>>> Literal data: 484 bytes
>  >>>>>> Matched data: 1,400 bytes
>   File list size: 0
>   File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
>   File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
>   Total bytes sent: 613
>   Total bytes received: 53
>   
>  >>>>>> sent 613 bytes  received 53 bytes  1,332.00 bytes/sec
>   total size is 1,884  speedup is 2.83
> 
> See what it gives when you test transfers of you plzip archives.

Thanks for the hint. I will give it a try once I have before me.

> 
> Happy hacking,
> 

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How can we check that a compressed file is rsyncable ?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

How can we check that a compressed file is rsyncable ?

In fact I would like to know if tarball compress with plzip are rsyncable ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

Re: Please help delete printer job

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,

On 13/06/2019 18:31, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote: 
>> Hi...
>>
>> by mistake I told my Samsung ML-1925 to print a large document and don't 
>> manage
>> to cancel that...  I tried with the `cancel' command, also lprm, and also 
>> from
>> within web browser print management...  but nothing, it goes on wanting to
>> print it still.  Before it uses all the available ink and more, please anyone
>> tell me how to stop it.
> 
> Turn off the printer. Go, do that now.
> 
> Now you have time to figure out how to stop the job from being
> resubmitted.

You may want to begin to conside CUPS.

hth,
Jerome

> 
> -dsr-
> 

Re: Keyboard not responding after exiting X

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 20/05/2019 13:42, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Brian  writes:
> 
>> On Mon 20 May 2019 at 06:15:57 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>
>>> In order to have PDFtoMusic properly installed and work (see thread
>>> `PDFtoMusic installation') I had to do a full-upgrade to unstable.
>>> Everything is ok now except that, when logging out X (graphical environment,
>>> window manager), the keyboard is totally not responding so that I have to
>>> power off using the external button on the computer case.  Anyone
>>> experimenting the same problem?  Please help whoever can.
>>
>> Bug #929229 and Bug #929250.
> 
> 
> Thanks, Brian.  So what should I do, waiting for them to be fixed and do a
> full-upgrade again in a few days/weeks/months...?

My understanding is that you play with the Sid distribution. This distribution 
is unstable by nature,
and its main purpose is to test and check new packages.
You should rather consider to install Buster which by now can be can considered 
quite stable.

hth,
Jerome


> 
> Rodolfo
> 




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Re: install debian on latest Macbook pro

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Lina,

On 12/04/2019 02:44, lina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I tried to install the Debian on latest MacBook Pro, I found the
> keyboard and the touchpad does not work.
> 
> It is just the beginning, I know I will meet lots of problems,
> 
> Is there any link providing the information how to install and set up
> the debian on the latest version? The one I can grab is for old
> version.

You want to have a look at https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

hth,
Jerome


> 
> Thanks, lina
> 

Re: Wondering how long it usually takes for a package to move from stable-p-u

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

On 11/04/2019 05:59, Luke Picciau wrote:
> I have been tracking this package 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ca-certificates-java for about a month 
> because the package version 20170929~deb9u1 which is in stable has a bug 
> which is blocking my docker image builds. Version 20170929~deb9u2 should 
> fix it but the package has been in stable-p-u for a while now. How long 
> usually does it take for a package to move from stable-p-u to stable?


You have to bear in mind that currently Debian is terminating a cycle.
 
> And is there any way I can install just that one package as the newer 
> version on debian stretch without changing the repos to testing for the 
> whole OS?

I guess that the best you can do is to build your own package from the debian 
source material.

hth,
Jerome
> 

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

On 22/02/2019 14:39, Sam Varghese wrote:
> On Fri, February 22, 2019 7:12 pm, Andrea Borgia wrote:
>> Hi, Sam.
>>
>> Unless you go for the "G" variant of Ryzen (with embedded GPU(, you should
>> be good to go with no special care if you use the current "testing".
>> If you decide to use "G" as I did, you should probably opt for this
>> kernel:
>> https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries
> 
> Thank you, Andrea, and everyone else for the helpful responses. Much
> appreciated.
> 
> I think I will avoid the "G" variant; the Ryzen5 2600 is available for
> $259 (Australian dollars) which I will probably buy over the weekend.

Out of curiosity, in what kind computer do you plan to plug it ?

Jerome

> 
> Sam
> 
> (Sam Varghese)
> 

Re: Upset with debian performance

[Jerome BENOIT]

Dear Joe,

On 13/10/18 13:46, Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 12:55:47 +0400
> Jerome BENOIT  wrote:
> 
>> Dear Mask,
>>
> 
>>
>> this is a User list. 
>>
> 
>>
>> Feel free to submit relevant bug reports to the package maintainers,
>> or event far better to provide patches to fix the issues.
>>
> 
> Dear Jerome,
> 
> This is a user list.

I understood that.

> 
> I've dabbled with programming for forty-five years, and written a few
> bits of firmware for PIC microcontrollers. I'll submit bug reports, and
> I have submitted quite a few, but I would not feel qualified to write
> code for Debian. Particularly in C, which I haven't touched for at
> least twenty years. It is unsafe to assume that all Debian *users* are
> professional C programmers.

I understand that that all Debian users are not familiar with C,
hence the `even better' (that I understood as a possibility: `if you can do it 
(time+skill+...), please do it').
Anyway, good bug reports at the relevant place are better that complains at the 
wrong place.

I also understand that the issue with FireFox in Stable is recent (and came 
from security):
please give a chance to the involved maintainers to fix it.

The issue bother me too, BTW.


Cheers,
Jerome
> 

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Re: Upset with debian performance

[Jerome BENOIT]

Dear Mask,

On 13/10/18 12:48, Mask The Truth God wrote:
> To anyone with an exceptional understanding of the debian OS (mainly directed 
> to Developers)

this is a User list. 

> 
> I am quite upset with the performance I have been getting from my debian 
> system since I have downloaded it. I will try to explain in as much detail as 
> I can so if it is possible someone might be able to change my mind and make 
> me keep debian as my daily driver then it might happen.
> 
> I just got done doing a fresh install of debian 9.5 stable, I enjoyed it at 
> first and then followed instructions from long time debian users and 
> installed all of the necessary drivers and firmware ect  after i got 
> everything installed it seemed to be working great untill I started up 
> firefox. This was one of the first major performance problems that came 
> about. Every time i would watch a youtube video or view a twitch stream it 
> would work for a second  but then the video would glitch and skip around 
> along with audio glitching from seconds ago repeating itself. (more with the 
> live streams on twitch than the youtube videos but they still are glitchy too 
> but not as much as the twtich) Also in firefox every time i scroll firefox 
> would be  laggy and choppy. I then installed Opera to check and see if it was 
> possibly caused by a corrupted firefox and opera behaved the exact same. The 
> same choppy scrolling also happened when I installed discord to the system 
> when i would scroll
> in the discord chats. To rule out the obvious here I have a well tested 
> eithernet cable that works great with all my other systems so that is not the 
> isssue. 
> 
> The second biggest problem with debian is the audio control. I have written 
> about this before about a week ago when i was still trying to have hope and 
> configure everything and since ive installed AMD firmware and the drivers it 
> has gone down a lot but it still will make the awful hissing noise i 
> complained about before (i will put this description at the bottom of this 
> email for anyone who did not see my email a week ago about that problem) 
> 
> as I work a lot with music production and video streaming These problems are 
> major for me and are making me think of just giving up and switching to 
> Manjaro. 

Feel free to submit relevant bug reports to the package maintainers, or event 
far better to provide patches to fix the issues.

> 
> I still think Debian is a solid OS but from what I am witnessing it seems If 
> i am very concerned with perfect audio for music recording and streaming 
> videos with no glitching then maybe debian is not meant for what I need and i 
> should switch to something more modern and aimed at being used as an every 
> day system like Manjaro?

Feel fre to switch.

> 
> 
> Here is the USB audio problem I am having: 
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/terrible-audio-problems-4175640263/
> 
> 
> Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email.
> 

Cheers,
Jerome (unmasked)

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Re: Linux equivalent of Apple's fontbook

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Johann,

On 17/07/18 13:49, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Debian, how do I see what all the characters in a LateX font like
> Linux Libertine O look like?

This looks as a LaTeX question rather then a Linux one.


> 
> Fontbook on OS X is a very good program to exactly see what a font looks like.
> 

Jerome


> Regards
> Johann
> 

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Re: Acrobat Reader stops works

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

On 15/01/18 16:32, Carl Fink wrote:
> On 01/15/2018 06:45 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>
>> On 15/01/18 13:32, Kamil Jońca wrote:
>>> Recently I have to reinstall my system.
>>> Most of things works OOTB, but I cannot make Acrobat Reader (9.5.5) to
>>> work.
>>> Stracing shows segmentation fault (catched) in main thread.
>>> Worse thing is, on second computer with the same libraries(and the same 
>>> versions) acroread
>>> work.
>>> Any hints/thoughts?
>> migrate to evince ?
> That's rather an unhelpful answer, isn't it?

I do not think so because acrobat reader is no more supported by adobe.
This is very unfortunate, but true.


> 
> Kamil, can you post the actual output of strace? What version of
> Debian you are using would also be good, especially kernel version.
> 

Jerome

Re: Acrobat Reader stops works

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 15/01/18 13:32, Kamil Jońca wrote:
> 
> Recently I have to reinstall my system.
> Most of things works OOTB, but I cannot make Acrobat Reader (9.5.5) to
> work.
> Stracing shows segmentation fault (catched) in main thread.
> Worse thing is, on second computer with the same libraries(and the same 
> versions) acroread
> work.
> Any hints/thoughts?

migrate to evince ?

Jerome


> KJ
> 

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

[Jerome BENOIT]

Thanks for your reply.

On 25/12/17 00:05, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:24:17PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box).
>>
>> Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]:
>> I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to
>> a retina box: it appears, unfortunately, that Xfce support for HiDPI is low.
>> small (if not tiny) icons there, big fonts here; and so forth.
>> I have tried to fix it to stick to Xfce; after all Xfce is lightweight.
>> But the issue is that X is not yet ready to manage HiDPI properly:
>> a lot of tweaks are needed to get something almost readable.
> 
> I only found three tweaks needed for XFCE:
> 
> 1. Change the DPI setting upwards.

tried:
xdpyinfo now gives the expected resolution (220 dpi) and screen dimension.
Nevertheless, in the /v/l/Xorg.0.log, DIP is still set to 96 .

> 2. Increase the size of the panel bars.

done

> 3. Select a theme that scales title bars and buttons with the
>size of the font.

I switched to the Default-hdpi style.
BTW, is there any list of HiDPI compatible theme ?

I also  managed to get readable fonts for my xterm consoles, and gvim.

So far, I could not fix the size of the button/icons for gvim and evince:
any hint ?


Thanks, Jerome


> 
> -dsr-
> 

HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box).

Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]:
I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to
a retina box: it appears, unfortunately, that Xfce support for HiDPI is low.
small (if not tiny) icons there, big fonts here; and so forth.
I have tried to fix it to stick to Xfce; after all Xfce is lightweight.
But the issue is that X is not yet ready to manage HiDPI properly:
a lot of tweaks are needed to get something almost readable.

I read that Cinnamon and MATE, both former clones of GNOME[2], have HiDPI in 
mind:
is there any other possibility ? which one is the best in terms of weight and 
HiDPI support ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

On 06/10/17 17:24, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Now "import" is quite another kettle of fish: it's part of the
>>> ImageMagick suite (not much to do with X, actually), which has the
>>> (questionable) tradition of calling its things "display", "convert",
>>> "identify", "compare"... or even "conjure"). Now ImageMagick is so
>>> useful that people seem to tolerate it, but a prefix (e.g. "im-")
>>> or a super-command ("im") would be more modern, yes.
>> ImageMagick only gets away with it because of its age and ubiquity.
>> It's grandfathered in.
> 
> How 'bout installing imagemagick executables into
> a /usr/bin/im/ subdirectory?
> This way, you can refer to it via `im/convert` but if you prefer to 
> use the "grandfather" name, you can just add /usr/bin/im/ to your PATH.
> 

We can also add the prefix im- to each executable.
For instance, the tools coming with the nauty package are prefixed with nauty-
to avoid name collision.

Jerome



> 
> Stefan
> 

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Re: graphviz: pdf output with vectorial fonts

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Debian users,

On 24/07/17 19:23, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello Forum,
> 
> my pdf outputs with dot are ugly: while boxes and edges are vectorial,
> text is in pixel: in short I have a font issue.
> I am looking for a vectorial (scalabe ?) font ?
> It might be a configuration issue (even if I do not play with fonts).
> Otherwise, any hint is welcome.

Finally I find a way: just pass through GS instead of cairo:

dot -Teps N.dot -o N.eps
epstopdf N.eps

hth,
Jerome

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jerome
> 

Re: Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi Johann, thanks for your reply.

On 27/07/17 10:14, Johann Spies wrote:
> On 27 July 2017 at 07:52, Jerome BENOIT  wrote:
>> Hello Debian Users,
>>
>> I have recently upgraded my box from Jessie to Stretch.
>> I encountered a few little issues that I could fixed easily.
>> Nevertheless, so far, I failed to fixed one of them, and a very annoying one.
>>
>> During Xfce sessions, at random time my screen is filled with piece
>> of outdated images that were created by xscreensaver.
>> Most of the time, these images comes with an outdated error message from 
>> xscreensaver.
> 
> How did you configure xscreensaver?  I use XFCE and have no problems.
Good to know.

> My screensaver is configured to display images from a certain
> directory randomly.

It is configured to display the `deco' saver.

Cheers, Jerome

> 
> Regards
> Johann
> 

Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Debian Users,

I have recently upgraded my box from Jessie to Stretch.
I encountered a few little issues that I could fixed easily.
Nevertheless, so far, I failed to fixed one of them, and a very annoying one.

During Xfce sessions, at random time my screen is filled with piece
of outdated images that were created by xscreensaver.
Most of the time, these images comes with an outdated error message from 
xscreensaver.

Any hint to fix is is welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

graphviz: pdf output with vectorial fonts

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Forum,

my pdf outputs with dot are ugly: while boxes and edges are vectorial,
text is in pixel: in short I have a font issue.
I am looking for a vectorial (scalabe ?) font ?
It might be a configuration issue (even if I do not play with fonts).
Otherwise, any hint is welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

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Stretch: merkaartor: is it working ?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Forum,

I have just tried merkaartor on my Stretch box:
so far I cannot make it works as within Jessie:
does anyone observed the same ?
Any hint is welcome.

Thanks,
Jerome

Stretch: RUNPATH seems no more taken into account

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi Again,

I migrated from Jessie to Stretch a few days ago.

I have just realised that the RUNPATH (as printed by `chrpath -l`)
of one of my local program is no more taken into account.
I rebuilt it, but the issue remains.
Any idea ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

Re: Debian Stretch Xfce: effective screeen bigger than the monitor screen

[Jerome BENOIT]

Indeed :-)

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply

On 28/06/17 20:52, Apurv Jyotirmay wrote:
> For me it has always been with holding "alt" key and use scroll wheel. Try it.
> -Apurv
> 
> On Jun 28, 2017 22:13, "Jerome BENOIT"  <mailto:sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net>> wrote:
> 
> Hello Forum,
> 
> I have recently migrated from Jessie to Stretch. I have a couple of minor 
> issues.
> One of them concern Xfce: some time my fingers seem to do a combination 
> of keys
> that magnifies the screen: I got a floating desktop environment that is 
> lager
> than my actual screen. Does any know the magic combination that leads to 
> this state ?
> And, more importantly, how can we go back to the normal state ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jerome
> 

Debian Stretch Xfce: effective screeen bigger than the monitor screen

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Forum,

I have recently migrated from Jessie to Stretch. I have a couple of minor 
issues.
One of them concern Xfce: some time my fingers seem to do a combination of keys
that magnifies the screen: I got a floating desktop environment that is lager
than my actual screen. Does any know the magic combination that leads to this 
state ?
And, more importantly, how can we go back to the normal state ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

how take a xscreensaver/deco image as backgound image

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

I use deco as xscreesaver and I would like to take one of its random image as 
(static) background:
is there a simple way to do so ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

Fwd: Error in Linux Debian

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Juan, welcome to Debian.
Your question is a Debian User question, so I redirect it to the debian-user 
list.
Best, Jerome


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Error in Linux Debian
Date:   Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:17:56 -0300
From:   Juan Carlos Cangiano 
To: calcu...@rezozer.net



Hello Jerome my name is Juan Carlos am from Argentina, I am a student and got 
your contact from the debian.org  page.
I have this problem, install Linux Debian, from the graphical interface root to 
install the Netbeans, first install the JDP (Java Development Kit) in 32bit and 
my Linux is 64bit, then try to install the Netbeans tells me that the JDP is 
32bit 64bit install it. When I leave installer Netbeans I stared single desk 
root. let me do nothing and neither is the bar. Restart the computer and enter 
the root me is the same. I can only see the wallpaper and nothing else. Just 
entering a user I can use all normal mind. But when entering the root I can not 
see anything. How can i fix this?
You very much appreciate your response,
Regards,
Juan Carlos

texdoctk: how to set Button colours ?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Forum,

whenever I launch texdoctk(1), I get the message:

NOTE: Button colours not set in /etc/texmf/texdoctk/texdocrc.defaults; 
using defaults.

Any hint on how to fix this ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

Re: computer cann't shut down

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Forum:

On 20/03/16 04:42, Michael Milliman wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/19/2016 09:40 PM, lina wrote:
>> shutdown -h now
>> 
>> doesn't work. it still reboot.
>> 
> This sounds like an issue with the hardware or BIOS not with the
> Debian OS, or with the Desktop environment.  Though I have not had
> this problem, I have had several others related to
> shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate on various machines, but I know for
> a fact that all such problems have been with the hardware/BIOS, not
> the Debian software.  I don't know enough about the iMac to offer
> anything more.

Does recent iMac have a BIOS ?

Jerome

>> 
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Lisi Reisz 
>> wrote:
>>> On Saturday 19 March 2016 23:37:05 Patrick Bartek wrote:
 On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, David Christensen wrote:
> On 03/19/2016 05:40 AM, lina wrote:
>> Every time since I installed the system,
>> 
>> every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again.
>> 
>> I checked online and tried several methods but still don't
>> work.
>> 
>> Can anyone suggest me how to solve it.
> I'm having the same issue:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818311
> 
> So far, no progress in resolving it.
 No problem here.  'shutdown -h now' (as root) works as it
 should. Wheezy 64-bit, fully up-to-date; no desktop
 environments installed, just Openbox window manager.  System
 boots to terminal, login there, then startx. I like to keep
 things simple.
 
 Maybe, problem is related to a desktop environment.
 
 B
>>> No, I use a desktop, and have a desktop installed on several
>>> other computers I administer.  3 x Wheezy, 2 x Jessie.  TDE,
>>> variously 14.0.3 and 3.5.13.2. All shut down without a problem.
>>> 
>>> Lisi
>>> 
> 

Re: Debian and Firefox/Iceweasel

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Charlie:

On 26/02/16 03:53, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> if Iceweasel incorporates those Firefox features, I would have to also switch 
> away from Debian.  


Is it not an extreme attitude ? There are plenty of web browser around: 

https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers

Be aware that the list is not complete: for instance xombrero is not listed.

hth,
Jerome

Re: how to install debian on iMac

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 21/02/16 00:53, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Feb 20, 2016, at 2:31 PM, Jerome BENOIT  
> wrote:
> 
>> There is a Debian website dedicated to MacBookPro machines.
>> Ubuntu also provides information.
> 
> Thanks!  This may be helpful.  Can you provide some links?

Google is our friend here:

https://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro

> 
> Enjoy!
> Rick
> 

Re: how to install debian on iMac

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello:

On 20/02/16 23:13, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Feb 19, 2016, at 9:31 PM, lina  wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone tried successfully to install the debian into the iMac
>> with Fusion drive?
>> 
>> The basic configuration is
>> 
>> •   2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, Turbo Boost up to
>> 3.3GHz •   Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200 •   8GB 1867MHz LPDDR3 •
>> 1TB Fusion Drive
>> 
>> Where I can find a step-by-step guide?
>> 
>> Thanks,
> 
> Hi Lina,
> 
> As noted by another person on the list, there is a fairly complete
> installation guide at https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#stable
> 
> I've never tried installing Debian on an intel-based Mac before, but
> as it happens, I do have a MacBook-Pro from about 2007 or so that I
> recently retired and replaced with with a much lighter MacBook Air.
> Since your biggest problem is probably going to be getting the
> installer to boot, I'm willing to work through it with you
> step-by-step using my MacBook-Pro and your iMac.

One of the main issues with Mac computers are related to UEFI:
- it appears that grub 2 now deals rather well with it;
- old machines may not have a proper UEFI firmware: this may be a major
  different between your old MacBook-Pro and a recent iMac.

There is a Debian website dedicated to MacBookPro machines.
Ubuntu also provides information.

> 
> The first question will be, "Does your iMac have a functioning DVD or
> CD drive?" The second question will be, "Do you have access to the
> Internet? If so, is it wifi or wired ethernet?"

DVD/CD drives are disappearing monsters.
Anyway, netinstall may hold on a lot of USB stick and is now able to
manage efi boot (Jessie 8.3)

> 
> Let's keep the conversation on the debian-user list for the time
> being.  There may be others who have knowledge to contribute.
> 
> Enjoy! Rick
> 
> PS:  And thanks for the kind words from Stephen Allen!
> 

hth,
Jerome

Re: TeX: Solovay's checksum utility

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Tomas:

On 18/01/16 20:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 04:16:53PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> Hello Forum:
> 
>> Is the Solovay's checksum utility (still) distributed within Debian ?
>> Is there any alternative ?
> 
> I didn't find one in the (Debian) TeX Live distro, although I must admit
> that I'm somewhat out of my depth here. But some version of it seems
> to be available here [1]

Thanks. I figured it to a few minutes after my email.

Let add that the source builds straight the way.

Thanks,
Jerome

> 
> [1] <ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/misc/index.html#checksum>
> 
> regards
> -- t
> 

TeX: Solovay's checksum utility

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Forum:

Is the Solovay's checksum utility (still) distributed within Debian ?
Is there any alternative ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Fernando:

I am not sure that the debian-user forum is the best place for your message:
what I mean is that you may want to target better. The debian-user forum is 
meant
for end users who are not responsible for the content of the packages.

First, you may want to make a bugreport for the package asking to drop off 
these images
or to at least put them in a separate package with an explicit name (or 
something).
Second, you may address the issue to the debian-policy forum.

hth,
Jerome


On 31/12/15 12:15, Fernando Arenas wrote:
> First my sincere congratulations to the entire team that works every day to 
> improve this wonderful operating system.
> The reason for writing to you is to have found in a package called 
> openclipart2 clipsarts clearly sexist content in which women are presented as 
> sex objects. So I ask you to withdraw these images and improve its protocols 
> for such content is not put back into their servers.
> I hate that my children may find these images when they perform their work 
> for the school.
> Only in Spain during 2015 male violence he has killed 62 women. Do not you 
> contribute to promoting ideas about women favoring these behaviors.
> 
> greetings from
> Fernando Arenas
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/openclipart2-png/filelist
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/openclipart2-png/filelist
> 
> **
> 
> En primer lugar mi mas sincera felicitación al todo el equipo que cada día 
> trabaja para mejorar este magnifico sistema operativo.
> El motivo de dirigirme a ustedes es por haber encontrado en el paquete 
> openclipart2 unos clipsarts de contenido claramente machista en los que se 
> presenta a la mujer como objeto sexual. Por lo que quiero pedirles que 
> retiren estas imágenes y que mejoren sus protocolos para que contenidos de 
> este tipo no se vuelvan a incluir en sus servidores.
> No es agradable comprobar que mis hijos pueden encontrar estas imágenes 
> cuando realizan su trabajo para el colegio.
> Solo en España durante 2015 la violencia machista ha asesinado a 62 mujeres. 
> No contribuyan ustedes a fomentar ideas sobre la mujer que favorecen estos 
> comportamientos.
> 
> Saludos
> Fernando Arenas
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/openclipart2-png/filelist
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/openclipart2-png/filelist
> 
> **
> **
> 
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_10.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_11.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_12.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_13.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_14.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_15.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_16.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_17.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_18.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_19.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_2.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_20.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_3.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_4.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_5.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_6.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_7.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_8.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gustavorezende/gustavorezende_Woman_9.png
> 
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/grimgiant/grimgiant_nude_woman.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/grimgiant/grimgiant_nude_woman_on_bed.png
> 
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/juanmontoya/juanmontoya_lingerie_(see_png).png
> 
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/kaeso/kaeso_Girls_rule_.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/kaeso/kaeso_Toilet_sign.png
> 
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/dodom01/dodom01_women_from_above.png
> 
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/gopher/gopher_Pink_anime_girl_(beta_).png
> 
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/molumen/molumen_Naked_girl.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/molumen/molumen_Naked_girl_1.png
> 
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/momoko/momoko_Silhouette_of_Stripper_on_a_Pole.png
> 
> 
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/nicubunu/nicubunu_Woman_Silhouette_01.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/nicubunu/nicubunu_Woman_Silhouette_02.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/nicubunu/nicubunu_Woman_Silhouette_03.png
> /usr/share/openclipart2/png/nicubunu/nicubunu_Woman_Silhouette_04.png
> /

very naive question iPad as extra monitor

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Forum:

Does anyone know a working way to use an iPad as extra monitor with Debian ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome

Re: Running HAL and udev Simultanteouly

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,

On 15/09/15 23:43, Bartek wrote:
> Still searching for a fix to stream TV via Hulu.  Worked fine with
> Chrome/pepperflash and Iceweasal/flash until about mid-July, around the
> release time of Windows 10. Hulu indicates that with Linux, HAL is
> needed. My system is custom: 64-bit Wheezy, no desktop, just Openbox WM
> and LXPanel, and udev.
> 
> Wondering if installing HAL as Hulu suggested would cause problems? I
> have doubts that it will work anyway.
> 
> Any advice or fixes appreciated.
> 

My understanding is that HAL was ejected from Debian a long time ago.
It was getting a huge bubble machine.
I would look for alternative.

hth,
Jerome 

> Thanks.
> 
> B
> 

Re: Wlan

[Jerome BENOIT]

Bonjour Stephan:

debian-user@lists.debian.org is an English spoken forum:
you may either expose your issue in English or send your
issue to the corresponding German forum.

Bonne chance,
Jerome

On 11/07/15 13:25, stephan roehling wrote:
> Hallo,
> meine wlan-Karte wird von linux nicht gefunden.
> apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree funktioniert nicht. Es erscheint
> die meldung Paket nicht gefunden.
> Kann jemand helfen.
> Stephan
> 
> 


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Re: javaws

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,

On 17/04/15 10:31, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 04/17/2015 04:06 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 17/04/15 09:53, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> On 04/17/2015 03:47 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>>> Hello List,
>>>> 
>>>> On 17/04/15 09:43, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>>> On 04/16/2015 11:44 PM, lina wrote:
>>>>>> Just notice
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> /etc/alternatives/javaws ->
>>>>>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/javaws
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> change to 7 works.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you're going to use Oracle Java, I would suggest this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/how-to-install-oracle-java-7-in-debian.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 
I've been using this for several years and it works flawlessly. The
>>>>> major problem people have is setting the alternatives
>>>>> correctly. This method does just that, in spades. There is a
>>>>> java version 8 as well, but I am staying with version 7 a bit
>>>>> longer. You will enjoy this! Plus, you get version updates
>>>>> automagically. It really doesn't get any better. I just tried
>>>>> your link, and it fired up the first time.
>>>> 
>>>> Note that the Debian package java-package allows to create your
>>>> own Oracle Java debbals.
>>> 
>>> Will it set all the alternatives? That can be an major issue.
>>> Ric
>> 
>> The created debballs set up alternatives apparently: on my box:
>> 
>> mybox$ update-alternatives --display javaws
>> 
>> give
>> 
>> javaws - auto mode link currently points to
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws 
>> /usr/lib/jvm/j2sdk1.6-oracle/jre/bin/javaws - priority 315 slave
>> javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/j2sdk1.6-oracle/man/man1/javaws.1.gz 
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws - priority 1061 
>> slave javaws.1.gz:
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/man/man1/javaws.1.gz 
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws - priority 1071 
>> slave javaws.1.gz:
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/man/man1/javaws.1.gz 
>> /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-6-oracle-x64/jre/bin/javaws - priority 316 slave
>> javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-6-oracle-x64/man/man1/javaws.1.gz 
>> /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7-oracle-x64/jre/bin/javaws - priority 317 slave
>> javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7-oracle-x64/man/man1/javaws.1.gz 
>> /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-x64/jre/bin/javaws - priority 318 slave
>> javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-x64/man/man1/javaws.1.gz 
>> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-6-oracle-x64/bin/javaws - priority 315 slave
>> javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-6-oracle-x64/man/man1/javaws.1.gz 
>> Current 'best' version is
>> '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws'.
> 
> 
> Right, but I meant all the other java alternatives. There are a bunch
> of them:
> 
> ControlPanel, appletviewer, extcheck, idlj, jar, jarsigner, java,
> java-vm, javac, javadoc, javafxpackager, javah, javap, javaws, jcmd,
> jconsole, jdb, jexec, jhat, jinfo, jmc, jos, jrunscript, jsadebugd,
> jstat, jstatd, jvisualvm, keytool, the mozilla plugin which links to
> libnpip2.so, native2ascii, orbd, pack200, policytool, rmic, rmid,
> rmiregistry, schemagan, serialver, servertool, wsgen, wsimport, xjc.
> 
> You made me look. :0  I didn't know half of these existed until I
> used that installer. It's just a script which will directly install
> Oracle Java FROM Oracle.

java-package allows to make Debian package Oracle Java from Oracle installers
through a bunch of scripts.
If all the proper alternatives are not set, it sounds as a bug.
I can hardly say whether or not all those alternatives are effectively needed
because I am not that familiar with java.


 Then after it sets everything right. I love
> it, as I am lazy and Andrew does a good job at it. Just a FYI, Ric

This kind of laziness is good, but sometime it is just better to favour Debian 
ways.
BTW, the Debian Java Maintainers does a good job as well.

Cheers,
Jerome

> 
> 
> 

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Re: javaws

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,

On 17/04/15 09:53, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 04/17/2015 03:47 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> On 17/04/15 09:43, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> On 04/16/2015 11:44 PM, lina wrote:
>>>> Just notice
>>>>
>>>> /etc/alternatives/javaws -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/javaws
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> change to 7 works.
>>>
>>>
>>> If you're going to use Oracle Java, I would suggest this:
>>>
>>> http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/how-to-install-oracle-java-7-in-debian.html
>>>
>>>   I've been using this for several years and it works flawlessly. The
>>> major problem people have is setting the alternatives correctly. This
>>> method does just that, in spades. There is a java version 8 as well,
>>> but I am staying with version 7 a bit longer. You will enjoy this!
>>> Plus, you get version updates automagically. It really doesn't get
>>> any better. I just tried your link, and it fired up the first time.
>>
>> Note that the Debian package java-package allows to create your own Oracle
>> Java debbals.
> 
> Will it set all the alternatives? That can be an major issue. Ric

The created debballs set up alternatives apparently: on my box:

mybox$ update-alternatives --display javaws

give

javaws - auto mode
  link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws
/usr/lib/jvm/j2sdk1.6-oracle/jre/bin/javaws - priority 315
  slave javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/j2sdk1.6-oracle/man/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws - priority 1061
  slave javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/man/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws - priority 1071
  slave javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/man/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-6-oracle-x64/jre/bin/javaws - priority 316
  slave javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-6-oracle-x64/man/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7-oracle-x64/jre/bin/javaws - priority 317
  slave javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7-oracle-x64/man/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-x64/jre/bin/javaws - priority 318
  slave javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-x64/man/man1/javaws.1.gz
/usr/lib/jvm/jre-6-oracle-x64/bin/javaws - priority 315
  slave javaws.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-6-oracle-x64/man/man1/javaws.1.gz
Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws'.

Cheers,
Jerome

> 
> 
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Re: javaws

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

On 17/04/15 09:43, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 04/16/2015 11:44 PM, lina wrote:
>> Just notice
>> 
>> /etc/alternatives/javaws -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/javaws
>> 
>> 
>> change to 7 works.
> 
> 
> If you're going to use Oracle Java, I would suggest this:
> 
> http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/how-to-install-oracle-java-7-in-debian.html
>
>  I've been using this for several years and it works flawlessly. The
> major problem people have is setting the alternatives correctly. This
> method does just that, in spades. There is a java version 8 as well,
> but I am staying with version 7 a bit longer. You will enjoy this!
> Plus, you get version updates automagically. It really doesn't get
> any better. I just tried your link, and it fired up the first time.

Note that the Debian package java-package allows to create your own Oracle
Java debbals.

Cheers,
Jerome

> Ric
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: Jessie and /var

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Petter,

On 04/04/15 09:23, Petter Adsen wrote:
> I am preparing to set up Jessie on my home server today, with mdadm
> RAID and LVM. Even though I am using LVM, I want to get the volume
> sizes about right when I first set them up.
> 
> VM images and containers are stored under /var - is there anything else
> that systemd stores under /var that might take up enough space that I
> should be aware of when setting up?


why not mount a dedicated partition inside /var  for such usage ?
/var/local ?

Jerome

> 
> Petter
> 


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Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

on Wheezy, the flash plugin can be updated as root with

update-flashplugin-nonfree


I do not know if this update tool exist on Squeeze.

hth,
Jerome


On 09/02/15 16:32, antispammbox-debian wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> It's possible update FlashPlugin in Squeeze?
> Thanks
> 
> Regards
> 
> 


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xscreensavers: how to specify window dimensions

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Hello List,

let play with xscreensaver_s.

If /usr/lib/xscreensaver/deco is lauched a window pop up:
how can we specify the width and the height of the window ?

Thanks in advance,
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Re: shell script removing log files.

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 22/12/14 19:51, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files.
> 
> for i in $( echo *.Log ); do 
>   /bin/rm $i; 
>   echo "Removed $i." 
> done
> 
> In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains.
> /bin/rm: cannot remove `*.Log': No such file or directory
> 
> If echo is replaced with ls, it complains when there 
> is no match.
> 
> Does anyone have a tidy solution for this task?


rm --verbose --force *.Log


hth,
Jerome

> 
> Thanks,   ... Peter E.
> 
> 
> 


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Wheezy: mouse middle button issue

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Forum !

Since a couple of day, the middle button of my magic mouse (USB)
has experienced a major issue: I can more copy/past or open-in-new-tab.
A deeper investigation with xev shows that button 2 is no more existing:
any idea ?

My box is a Wheezy box that is daily updated.

Cheers,
Jerome


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Re: Transición a Debian

[Jerome BENOIT]

Bonjour,

On 13/12/14 19:21, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:47:02 +0100 Jerome BENOIT
>  wrote:
> 
>> Hola, this is an English Forum. Cheers, Jerome
> 
> It pains me, especially at this Xmas time, to see this kind of
> un-helpful rebuke given without any sort of useful reply to the
> original query, or at least some pointer where the enquirer could
> find the answer, or help, in his own language.

It was not meant to be a rebuke, but rather to indicate that [s]he went on the 
wrong Forum.
In this sense, it is helpful. Otherwise, I cannot reply in Spanish.

Jerome

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ron.
> 


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Re: Transición a Debian

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hola, this is an English Forum.
Cheers, Jerome



On 13/12/14 18:15, JAWV WV wrote:
> Hola disculpas ante todo x la pregunta es muy sencilla  espero no
> quitarles mucho tiempo, mi inquietud es sobre actualizaciones en cada
> versión estable de Debian, es decir cada que sale una nueva versión
> anual o semestral, simplemente puedo actualizar el sistema para que
> se renueve o toca reinstalar completamente tdo el sistema , por
> ejemplo instalé la versión 7.7.0 y dentro de 5 o 6 meses la versión
> estable mejorada es liberada , me toca re-instalar o simplemente
> puedo actualizar la versión 7.7.0 para que pase a ser la 8.0.1 . Pues
> en verdad actualizar es instalar pero me refiero a instalaciones
> bruscas.
> 
> Mil gracias x la atención y paciencia !!


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Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 04/12/14 21:30, Brian Sammon wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:46:22 +0100
> Jerome BENOIT  wrote:
> 
>>> Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require
>>> OSX: 1) "Blessing" a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware
>>> it has (some versions have BIOS compatibility)
>>>
>>> Any pointers/suggestions?
>>
>> I will look towards a grub issue, specially if your partition is a gpt 
>> partition table.
>> For a gpt partition table, you must have a `bios grub' partition. 
>>
>>> I'm also looking into PureDarwin as a possible solution.
>>>
>> Debian is definitely better, do not trust the folks on the PureDarwin forums.
I was just kidding.
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> I have not seen any extravagant claims on behalf of PureDarwin.  Mostly just 
> apologetic caveats that it's not quite yet ready for primetime.
> 
> In any case, my interest in PureDarwin was primarily that it might have a 
> "bless" command and/or a way to query the firmware version.
> Other messages in this thread suggest that neither of these two things may be 
> fully necessary.

True.


Jerome
> 
> 


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Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

On 04/12/14 19:25, Brian Sammon wrote:
> I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been
> wiped.
> 
> I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported
> success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't
> boot from the hard drive.

I would consider eject as a comfort at this stage.
The reboot issue is the real issue here.

> 
> Googling finds me various pages about installing Linux where one of
> the steps is something like "Boot into OSX"

If you do not want a dual boot computer, forget this part and consider your box 
as
a regular box.

> 
> Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine that doesn't
> involve buying or borrowing (or "borrowing") a copy of OSX? 

Take care as this model may be not be supported by last OS X.
You do not need it.

 Is it
> easier to install linux on a USB disk and run it off of that?
> 
> Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require
> OSX: 1) "Blessing" a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware
> it has (some versions have BIOS compatibility)
> 
> Any pointers/suggestions?

I will look towards a grub issue, specially if your partition is a gpt 
partition table.
For a gpt partition table, you must have a `bios grub' partition. 


> 
> I'm also looking into PureDarwin as a possible solution.
> 
Debian is definitely better, do not trust the folks on the PureDarwin forums.

Best wishes,
Jerome

> 

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Re: wpa_supplicant: automatically sign in via coova hot spot interface

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Brian,

On 23/11/14 22:02, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 23 Nov 2014 at 19:38:37 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> 
>> is there any simple way to allow wpa_supplicant to automatically sign
>> in via coova hot spot interface ?
>>
>> Any hint is welcome, thanks in advance,
> 
> If you are using ifupdown you will likely be wanting to use a
> wpa-roam.conf in it. The Debian README for wpasupplicant is very
> detailed and helpful. Have a look at it and see whether you need
> to follow up on it here.
> 
> 

I already use this approach. The difficulty here is the coova login page.

Jerome


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wpa_supplicant: automatically sign in via coova hot spot interface

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Forum,

is there any simple way to allow wpa_supplicant to automatically sign in via 
coova hot spot interface ?

Any hint is welcome, thanks in advance,
Jerome


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word clouds

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

is there any tools to generate `Word clouds' withing Debian ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome


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Re: ip6tables: unexpected behaviour ?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello list,

On 24/07/14 22:17, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT:
>>
>> On 24/07/14 21:48, Erwan David wrote:
>>> Le 24/07/2014 21:43, Jerome BENOIT a écrit :
>>>> Hello List,
>>>>
>>>> I am building an IPv6 firewall: I get the message
>>>>
>>>> ip6tables v1.4.14: host/network `172.20.0.1' not found
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it expected ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It seems quite natural to me that ip6tables does not knows how to treat
>>> an IPv4 address.
>>
>> Not to me, because I assume that IPv6 encapsulates somehow IPv4:
>> do I miss something ?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv4-mapped_IPv6_addresses


It appears that there is an utility to manipulate them: ipv6calc

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/ipv6calc


hth,
Jerome

> 
> J.
> 


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Re: /dev/random

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,

On 01/08/14 18:06, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:50:44AM +0200, B wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:41:01 -0700
>> ""  wrote:
>>
>>> whatever experience you want to share.
>>
>> use haveged, it feeds /dev/random with a reservoir.
> 
> I'd like to chime in that I recently installed haveged myself and have
> seen a massive increase in available entropy.
> 
> Haveged, as I understand it basically runs a fairly complex calculation
> (with lots of branches and things) in a loop. Because almost all CPUs
> these days are complex beasts, the time to perform the calculation
> varies with each loop (sometimes because of cache misses, or maybe a
> branch was optimized differently). Haveged monitors the differences in
> these times and populates a random pool based on it. This is then fed in
> to the kernel as another source of entropy.
> 
> Haveged is amazingly useful on headless or virtual or appliance
> machines.

Unfortunately, it does not seem to work on OpenVZ boxes.

Jerome

> 
>>
>> -- 
>> Pazns: U don't know about the drawer method?
>> Pazns: U take your schoolbag, empty it in a drawer, close it,
>>hop! clean up done!
>> Zeeln: Yeah but my drawers are all full…
>> Pazns: U don't know about the trash method?
> 
> 


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Re: dev/log in jail

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

On 31/07/14 19:33, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT  wrote:
>> On 31/07/14 18:52, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> 
>>>> I have a very naive question: how can we create a dev/log
>>>> socket, similar to `/dev/log', in a chroot jail ?
> 
>>> It can be done through bind mounts (refer to the mount(8)
>>> manpage) or by configuring the log daemon to listen at the extra
>>> socket.
> 
>> Is there a way to create one by hand ?
> 
> Of course,

it is so well hidden !


 but it won't be useful since nobody will collect the 
> information from it.
> 
> You need to either a) bind mount an existing /dev/log (as already
> said) or b) consult the documentation of your syslog-daemon on how
> to configure it to create and listen to an extra socket (as also
> already said).

So, I will stick this way.

Thanks for your hints,
Jerome

> 
> Grüße, Sven.
> 


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Re: dev/log in jail

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,

On 31/07/14 18:52, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> I have a very naive question:
>> how can we create a dev/log socket, similar to `/dev/log', in a chroot jail ?
> 
> It can be done through bind mounts (refer to the mount(8) manpage) or by
> configuring the log daemon to listen at the extra socket.
> 

Is there a way to create one by hand ?

Jerome


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Re: dev/log in jail

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 31/07/14 17:54, B wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:46:08 +0200
> Jerome BENOIT  wrote:
> 
>> how can we create a dev/log socket, similar to `/dev/log', in a
>> chroot jail ?
> 
> The least Linux deserves from its users is them making at least
> a minimum of self researches about trivial questions…
> 

I did, and I cannot find.

Jerome


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dev/log in jail

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

I have a very naive question:
how can we create a dev/log socket, similar to `/dev/log', in a chroot jail ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome


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Re: ip6tables: unexpected behaviour ?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello Again,

On 24/07/14 22:17, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT:
>>
>> On 24/07/14 21:48, Erwan David wrote:
>>> Le 24/07/2014 21:43, Jerome BENOIT a écrit :
>>>> Hello List,
>>>>
>>>> I am building an IPv6 firewall: I get the message
>>>>
>>>> ip6tables v1.4.14: host/network `172.20.0.1' not found
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it expected ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It seems quite natural to me that ip6tables does not knows how to treat
>>> an IPv4 address.
>>
>> Not to me, because I assume that IPv6 encapsulates somehow IPv4:
>> do I miss something ?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv4-mapped_IPv6_addresses

Thanks a lot for the link.

Jerome

> 
> J.
> 


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Re: ip6tables: unexpected behaviour ?

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 24/07/14 21:48, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 24/07/2014 21:43, Jerome BENOIT a écrit :
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I am building an IPv6 firewall: I get the message
>>
>> ip6tables v1.4.14: host/network `172.20.0.1' not found
>>
>>
>> Is it expected ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Jerome
>>
>>
> It seems quite natural to me that ip6tables does not knows how to treat
> an IPv4 address.

Not to me, because I assume that IPv6 encapsulates somehow IPv4:
do I miss something ?

Jerome

> 
> 



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ip6tables: unexpected behaviour ?

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

I am building an IPv6 firewall: I get the message

ip6tables v1.4.14: host/network `172.20.0.1' not found


Is it expected ?

Thanks in advance,
Jerome


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FileLink server

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,

how to set up its own Filelink ( 
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/filelink-large-attachments ) server ?

Best wishes,
Jerome


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Re: unable to renew ip

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,

On 07/03/14 13:31, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On 07/03/2014 06:35, lina wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use dhclient and just switch to google dns server.
>>
>> For months, I have bees stuck with the eth0 ip address 172.21.100.159
> 
> Uh, that's part of the private class-B range (172.16.0.0/12). You're
> getting it from your local DHCP server.
> 
> Only way to change that would be to drop the IP address, and then flush
> the DHCP server tables so that it doesn't re-assign you the same IP address.
> 
> Short version of how it works is you get a lease for (e.g.) a day ...
> then when the day is up, your computer asks if the "just expired"
> address is still available.  If it is, the lease is renewed with the
> same IP address.
> 
>>
>> For couple of hours, the interaction is unbearably slow.
>>
>> I changed to another cable, tried the `# dhcline -r` and `# dhclient`,
>> but all not works.
>>
>> Are there some suggestions about how to change the IP address?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Not sure how/why Jerome decided that the DHCP server is a windows box
> though.

As a matter of fact, it was meant to be a private email (sorry):
I know the place, the environment is a windows one;
and I experienced a lot of unexpected behaviour with 
the local DHCP server.


> 
> Your IP address should have no effect on your connection speed (i.e.
> getting a new one won't help you any).  You have to find out what's
> causing your connection's throughput to be slow.
> 
> Some possibilities:
> 
> (LAN)
>  - Other things using the network (torrents, youtube, VoIP, etc)
>  - QoS limiting what you're trying to do (torrents, youtube) in favor
>of something else (VoIP)
>  - Router can't cope with the above
>  - you've been hard-limited (on the router) to 10 mbit (or 100 mbit),
>and you were on gbit.
> 
> (WAN)
>  - ISP has over-sold the loop (generally cable)
>  - ISP has over-sold the backhaul (DSL, fiber)
>  - ISP fscked up your modem's provisioning, and you're on (e.g.) 10/1
>when you should be on 50/5 (etc.)
> 
> 
> 

Cheers,
Jerome


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Re: unable to renew ip

[Jerome BENOIT]

It is not up to you to assign the IP address, but to the DH server.
Your MAC address is there buffer.
The local DH server is window$. what renders thing harder.
You can try to remove your MAC from their memory by no connecting for a while
(days, weeks ?).
You can also try to send a fake MAC address to the DH server.



On 07/03/14 12:35, lina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use dhclient and just switch to google dns server.

bad idea: come back to the local DNS server.

> 
> For months, I have bees stuck with the eth0 ip address 172.21.100.159
> 
> For couple of hours, the interaction is unbearably slow.
> 
> I changed to another cable, tried the `# dhcline -r` and `# dhclient`,
> but all not works.

the dh server is windows, so do not expect full support from it.

> 
> Are there some suggestions about how to change the IP address?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 

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Re: Replacing systemd

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 04/03/14 02:50, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions
> there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard
> from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools
> wouldn't be a good replacement because it has no concept of running
> things in a specific order.
> 
> So let me ask you this: If I wanted to replace systemd on a future
> Debian system, what would I replace it with, and how?

openrc ?

> 
> Note: This is a serious question about technology, not politics, so will
> the multinamed screamer please stay out of this conversation?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt*  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
> Troubleshooting Training  *  Human Performance
> 
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Re: Wheezy/Xfce Gnome keyring problem

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

On 02/01/14 04:31, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>>> The path of least resistance then would seem to be to install
>>> gnome-keyring to include that file.  If it existed then you wouldn't
>>> get the error any longer.  YMMV.
>>
>> I installed gnome-keyring and it pulled in several other packages. With these
>> installed the warning message changes to:
>> ...
>> WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: 
>> /home/pec/.cache/keyring-2pdgHe/pkcs11: No such file or directory
>>
>> If I simply put an empty file at this place the the directory tree, 
>> the message changes to:
>>
>> WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: 
>> /home/pec/.cache/keyring-2pdgHe/pkcs11: Connection refused
>>
>> I think I need to create a file that has some meanful content, but
>> what should that be?
> 
> Pesky GNOME!  Seems like a dependency hell situation.  Everything
> seems rigidly connected making it fragile.
> 
>> Advice and help, please.
> 
> Sorry.  I don't know.  Perhaps someone else will know how to untangle
> the layers.

If you want something-keyring, you may look for alternative as libpam-ssh .

hth,
Jerome

> 
> Bob
> 


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Re: upgrade question

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello,

On 20/09/13 15:25, François Patte wrote:
> Le 20/09/2013 11:57, Jerome BENOIT a écrit :
>> Hello List,
>>
>>
>> On 20/09/13 11:39, François Patte wrote:
>>> Bonjour,
>>>
>>> I want to see if I can get rid of:
>>>
>>> (evince:14988): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 
>>> /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.4/./gobject/gsignal.c:2593: instance 
>>> `0x7f8d6310ed90' has no handler with id `2342'
>>>
>>> (evince:14988): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 
>>> /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.4/./gobject/gsignal.c:2593: instance 
>>> `0x7f8d6310ed90' has no handler with id `2343'
>>>
>>> everytime I close evince and I try to upgrade evince...
>>
>> What do you mean by upgrade here ?
> 
> From man apt-get:
>  upgrade
>upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all
> packages currently installed on the
>system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list.
> Packages currently installed
>with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under
> no circumstances are
>currently installed packages removed, or packages not already
> installed retrieved and
>installed. New versions of currently installed packages that
> cannot be upgraded without
>changing the install status of another package will be left
> at their current version. An
>update must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new
> versions of packages are
>available.

The next question: with which distribution are you playing ?
I guess not the stable (currently Whezzy).

> 
> 
> 
>> Have you tried to build deb balls from the debian source or to
>> install directly the uptodate deb ball ?
>>
>> Building from debian source is the recommanded way.
> 
> Yes I even got the kernel sources and compiled it from scratch!
> 
> 
>>
>> The result
>>> is surprising: 461 packages will be upgraded, among them 
>>> xserver-xorg-video-ati (for instance)... Is evince depends on so
>>> many packages? even the video server for ati video cards, while my
>>> video card is nvidia...
>>>
>>> I don(t understand the dependencies: a lot of python packages, 
>>> spamassassin, apache... and so on. I just want to see if something
>>> has been corrected in evince and libraries on which evince
>>> depends...
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>> hth, Jerome
>>
>>
> 
hth,
Jerome

> 


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Re: upgrade question

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello List,
 

On 20/09/13 11:39, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> I want to see if I can get rid of:
> 
> (evince:14988): GLib-GObject-WARNING **:
> /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.4/./gobject/gsignal.c:2593: instance
> `0x7f8d6310ed90' has no handler with id `2342'
> 
> (evince:14988): GLib-GObject-WARNING **:
> /tmp/buildd/glib2.0-2.36.4/./gobject/gsignal.c:2593: instance
> `0x7f8d6310ed90' has no handler with id `2343'
> 
> everytime I close evince and I try to upgrade evince...

What do you mean by upgrade here ?
Have you tried to build deb balls from the debian source or to install directly 
the uptodate deb ball ?

Building from debian source is the recommanded way.

 The result
> is surprising: 461 packages will be upgraded, among them
> xserver-xorg-video-ati (for instance)... Is evince depends on so many
> packages? even the video server for ati video cards, while my video card
> is nvidia...
> 
> I don(t understand the dependencies: a lot of python packages,
> spamassassin, apache... and so on. I just want to see if something has
> been corrected in evince and libraries on which evince depends...
> 
> Thanks
> 

hth,
Jerome


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