Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

On Vi, 31 mai 19, 08:51:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:47:26AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/MergedUsr > > > > The wiki says this page does not exist yet. > > It's actually . Right, thanks (again) Greg for co

Re: openjdk-8-jre for buster

> "BR" == Brad Rogers writes: BR> Not from Debian. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-8 BR> Short version: It's been removed and (to me it looks like) won't BR> be back. Do they run IcedTea against the OpenJDK 11 ? -- /\ ___Ubuntu: a

Differences in the reported value of the Provides field in apt-cache

I noticed the following difference in the reported 'Provides' value. $ sudo apt-cache show python3 Package: python3 Provides: python3-profiler $ sudo apt-cache showpkg python3 ... Provides: 3.5.3-1 - python3-profiler:i386 (= ) python3:any (= 3.5.3-1) python3-profiler (= ) python3-profiler:

Re: netinst bad display after first screen

Blair, Charles E III composed on 2019-05-31 20:40 (UTC): >I have downloaded the current netinst and > burned it to a DVD. I burned mine to CD. :p >When I boot it, the first screen I see shows > the usual beginning with choices "Graphics Install," > "Install," "Advanced". >I choose

KVM snapshot management

I'm running a VM host server with Debian/Stable on AMD64. I recently converted an important VM over to qcow2 so I could take advantage of snapshots. I don't think I need to be able to revert back more than a week, so I thought that naming each snapshot with the day of week number would be reas

Re: netinst bad display after first screen

On 2019-05-31 4:40 p.m., Blair, Charles E III wrote: I have downloaded the current netinst and burned it to a DVD. When I boot it, the first screen I see shows the usual beginning with choices "Graphics Install," "Install," "Advanced". I choose "Install" and press F10. The moni

netinst bad display after first screen

I have downloaded the current netinst and burned it to a DVD. When I boot it, the first screen I see shows the usual beginning with choices "Graphics Install," "Install," "Advanced". I choose "Install" and press F10. The monitor then shows a row of what look like tiny screen images a

Re: Gmail problems (was Re: Ping as normal user)

On Fri 31 May 2019 at 14:33:42 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-05-31 14:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I guess I have to learn more about google > > mail, maybe either disabling their spam filter, or deciding to switch to > > an > > email provider (ideally free or cheap) who doesn't filter e

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

On Fri 31 May 2019 at 08:30:35 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: > >dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M > > I edited sources.list to read > >deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes > > > > When running S

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

On Fri 31 May 2019 at 09:08:52 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/31/2019 08:53 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > >deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount stretch main contrib > > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I now get a different error message: > > >

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

Hi, new idea after googling and finding several examples like Dan Ritter's proposal: Try the "exact path" form of "suite": deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount pool/main/ deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount pool/contrib/ or the usual form without mentioning (demanding ?) "stretch": deb file:/

Re: Snipping and quoting: Re: Wifi not working in Lenovo laptop/Ideapad/Atheros QCA9377

On 31/05/2019 23:22, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, May 31, 2019 01:32:20 PM tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, most people on this list prefer bottom-posting rather than top-posting, so I'll stick with the convention and post my answer at the bottom of the message, suggesting you do the

Snipping and quoting: Re: Wifi not working in Lenovo laptop/Ideapad/Atheros QCA9377

On Friday, May 31, 2019 01:32:20 PM tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, most people on this list prefer bottom-posting rather than > top-posting, so I'll stick with the convention and post my answer at the > bottom of the message, suggesting you do the same in the future to avoid > potential nast

Re: Wifi not working in Lenovo laptop/Ideapad/Atheros QCA9377

Hi, most people on this list prefer bottom-posting rather than top-posting, so I'll stick with the convention and post my answer at the bottom of the message, suggesting you do the same in the future to avoid potential nasty comments. ;-) vvv On 31/05/2019 22:38, senthil kosapeta wrote: Hi,

Re: Buster/lightdm - after locking screen, unlock prompt not visible

On 5/31/19, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Hi, > > In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen > blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After > that, neither moving the mouse nor typing on the keyboard would turn > the monitor back on. > > Typing the passw

Re: Wifi not working in Lenovo laptop/Ideapad/Atheros QCA9377

Hi, Earlier my system got stuck after firmware-atheros installation. Now i have freshly installed debian 9.9. So it does not have following /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/ Shall i retry installing "firmware-atheros" and proceed as per your suggestion? On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 9:10 PM id

Re: Buster/lightdm - after locking screen, unlock prompt not visible

On 5/31/19 11:16 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Hi, > > In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen > blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After > that, neither moving the mouse nor typing on the keyboard would turn > the monitor back on. > > Typing

Re: openjdk-8-jre for buster

On Fri, 31 May 2019 11:20:58 -0400 Larry Martell wrote: Hello Larry, >Is it possible to get openjdk-8-jre for buster? Not from Debian. See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-8 Short version: It's been removed and (to me it looks like) won't be back. -- Regards _ / )

Re: openjdk-8-jre for buster

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:20:58AM -0400, Larry Martell wrote: >Is it possible to get openjdk-8-jre for buster?  If you specifically want to install the Debian packages, you will have to add 'unstable' sources to your sources.list and install from there. Note that you will want to make careful

Re: Wifi not working in Lenovo laptop/Ideapad/Atheros QCA9377

Putting thread back on list, this was sent to me directly. Answer is at bottom. On 31/05/2019 19:07, senthil kosapeta wrote: Hi, These are the logs that i got, it says "firmware loading failed" *May 31 12:58:48 debian kernel: [0.048770] Spectre V2 : Enabling Restricted Speculat

openjdk-8-jre for buster

Is it possible to get openjdk-8-jre for buster?

Buster/lightdm - after locking screen, unlock prompt not visible

Hi, In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After that, neither moving the mouse nor typing on the keyboard would turn the monitor back on. Typing the password without any visual feedback (while the monitor c

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

Hello, On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 08:48:36AM -0500, Jason wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:46:50PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > How did you install this system? […] > > One other person in this thread said they used (a script which > > ultimately uses) debootstrap. > > This system was installed

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:46:50PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Jason, > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 04:18:51PM -0500, Jason wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 08:12:32AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > While I didn't mention it in this thread, ping had indeed somehow lost > > > its capabilitie

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

On 05/31/2019 08:53 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Dan Ritter wrote: deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount stretch main contrib Richard Owlett wrote: I now get a different error message: How about adding "/pool" to the URI ? deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount/pool stretch main contrib

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

Hi, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount stretch main contrib Richard Owlett wrote: > > I now get a different error message: How about adding "/pool" to the URI ? deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount/pool stretch main contrib because i see in a mounted 9.4.0-amd64-DVD

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

On 05/31/2019 08:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/31/2019 07:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M I edited sources.list to read deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main cont

Re: Gmail problems (was Re: Ping as normal user)

On 2019-05-31 14:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I have to learn more about google mail, maybe either disabling their spam filter, or deciding to switch to an email provider (ideally free or cheap) who doesn't filter email for me. (I guess when others mark something as spam, at least som

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/31/2019 07:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: > > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M > > > I edited sources.list to read > > > deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes >

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

On 05/31/2019 07:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M I edited sources.list to read deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes When running Synaptic's Edit->Reload Package I

Gmail problems (was Re: Ping as normal user)

On Friday, May 31, 2019 07:26:54 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 31/05/2019 à 13:16, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : > > I wanted to learn at least a little more about that, starting by looking > > back at the original post that mentioned that. I looked back about 10 > > posts but couldn't find it --

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:47:26AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > https://wiki.debian.org/MergedUsr > > The wiki says this page does not exist yet. It's actually .

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

On Fri 31 May 2019 at 07:20:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: >dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M > I edited sources.list to read >deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes > > When running Synaptic's > Edit->Reload Pack

Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

Richard Owlett wrote: > With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: >dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M > I edited sources.list to read >deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes > > When running Synaptic's > Edit->Reload Package Information > I receive an error m

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

Hi, i wrote: > > Currently the Default User depends on assumptions about local package > > management which are not obviously related to security. > > That's a future pitfall which just needs its unintentional cover removed. Reco wrote: > The way I see it, the "problematic" package got that Impor

Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M I edited sources.list to read deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes When running Synaptic's Edit->Reload Package Information I receive an error message: The repository 'file:/home/ri

Re: Ping as normal user

Le 31/05/2019 à 13:16, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : On Thursday, May 30, 2019 10:55:57 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: $ getcap /bin/ping /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep I wanted to learn at least a little more about that, starting by looking back at the original post that mentioned that. I looked back a

Re: Wifi not working in Lenovo laptop/Ideapad/Atheros QCA9377

On 31/05/2019 15:46, senthil kosapeta wrote: Dear Debians, I have purchased Lenovo laptop around 6 months back. (Lenovo ideapad) I had installed ubuntu earlier and Wifi used to work fine. Somehow it got crashed a month back. I have decided to switch over to debian 9.9 and installed it. Internet

Re: Ping as normal user

On Thursday, May 30, 2019 10:55:57 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > $ getcap /bin/ping > > /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep I wanted to learn at least a little more about that, starting by looking back at the original post that mentioned that. I looked back about 10 posts but couldn't find it -- can you

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 12:09:19PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Not every filesystem supported by Debian > > implements extended attributes needed for capabilities. > > Off the top of my head it's NFS and JFFS2. > > It is about the filesystem which holds the /bin directory. I would deem it > e

Re: Wifi not working in Lenovo laptop/Ideapad/Atheros QCA9377

Hi， Can you see your wireless interface by excuting /sbin/ifconfig -a should have device wlan0 or wlo0 or wls0p0 listed there if not，you missed driver for that device，either look non-free repository or download source code compile yourself On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 12:17 senthil kosapeta wrote

Wifi not working in Lenovo laptop/Ideapad/Atheros QCA9377

Dear Debians, I have purchased Lenovo laptop around 6 months back. (Lenovo ideapad) I had installed ubuntu earlier and Wifi used to work fine. Somehow it got crashed a month back. I have decided to switch over to debian 9.9 and installed it. Internet via Ethernet port is working. But wifi is not

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

Hi, i wrote: > > "d/control: Drop Priority of libcap2" > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libcap2/commit/5386335db24bfff5cc85bda69dbcda6ab2d7d20d Reco wrote: > Ah, that's what is was. That change made into the stable, I've just checked. Not according to the package tracker: oldstable has 1:2.2

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

Le 31/05/2019 à 08:38, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Mi, 29 mai 19, 23:29:21, Gene Heskett wrote: the default $PATH the installer sets up for $users, apparently does not include any of the sbin's, only /usr/bin and /bin. I've been fixing that for several generations of debian installs. It won't

kamailio 5 modules missing on latest buster

Hello, I need all Kamailio 5 modules to be present in the repo (first of all the app-java built with openjdk 11.0.3 2019-04-16 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.3+1-Debian-1 OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.3+1-Debian-1, mixed mode, sharing) please help Renato Gallo

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

Hi. On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 09:08:55AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > The other way would be if the archive priority was changed between > > different installs. > > This has happened in april 2016 (maybe related to bug 780721 ?) > > "d/control: Increase Priori

Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

Hi, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > The other way would be if the archive priority was changed between > different installs. This has happened in april 2016 (maybe related to bug 780721 ?) "d/control: Increase Priority of libcap2{,-bin} to important" https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libcap2/commit/a