Re: Re: Only Download Packages via Wi-Fi if Total Download Size Over 100 MB

2019-06-24 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
So in summary: - If NetworkManager is used, mark any connections other than Wi-Fi as metered (as suggested by Ryan Nowakowski) - Write helper script for apt that check for total download size, and if it exceeds 100 MB, prompt whether download via Wi-Fi or continue using current (non-Wi-Fi) c

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-24 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
On 24/06/19 06.27, Aidan Gauland wrote: I can't really offer an opinion on whether it is dangerous without a more detailed hypothetical scenario, but I would say that is overbroad, and this rule should be narrowed down to only allow running certain commands via sudo as required for this group

Re: Problem to locate bug

2019-06-24 Thread David Christensen
On 6/24/19 6:52 AM, sj...@uranus.uni-freiburg.de wrote: Dear all, for some weeks (or months perhaps already), my screen freezes suddenly and once in a while without any chance to de-freeze it again. I don't know wether my input is recognized after such a freeze, but I don't think so. (I should'

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

2019-06-24 Thread rhkramer
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:42:37PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-22, Andy Smith wrote: > > I am not aware of any other compression tool that offers to do what > > gzip's --rsyncable option does, but I owuld be interested if there > > are some that I overlooked. > > zstd introduced an '--rsyncab

[Solved - sorta - part 2] Re: how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init

2019-06-24 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Jun 23, 2019, at 2:24 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 05:45:39PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Purely out of curiosity, I'd like to see what's involved in >> switching a Debian buster system from systemd to sysv init. > > The short version [1]: > > apt-get ins

Re: Unreliable systemd user service

2019-06-24 Thread Aidan Gauland
On 25/06/19 3:46 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Why is there no "the graphical session is ready" >> systemd target? > There is, incidentally it is named graphical-session.target :-) > See man systemd.special > > Unfortunately, no display/session manager is hooked up yet to manage the > lifetime of th

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized [SOLVED + lessons learned]

2019-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Mon 24 Jun 2019 at 11:15:50 (-0700), Ross Boylan wrote: > LESSONS > 1. Don't ever get in this situation. It's a mess. > 2. If you're planning on moving to new hardware, ensure your initrd is > generated with MODULES=most BEFORE the move. > 3. Just because initramfs.conf has MODULES=most doesn'

[Solved - sorta - part 1] Re: how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init

2019-06-24 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Jun 23, 2019, at 2:24 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 05:45:39PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Purely out of curiosity, I'd like to see what's involved in >> switching a Debian buster system from systemd to sysv init. > > The short version [1]: > > apt-get ins

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized [SOLVED + lessons learned]

2019-06-24 Thread songbird
Ross Boylan wrote: ... > LESSONS > 1. Don't ever get in this situation. It's a mess. > 2. If you're planning on moving to new hardware, ensure your initrd is > generated with MODULES=most BEFORE the move. > 3. Just because initramfs.conf has MODULES=most doesn't mean that's > what you get. In my

Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:54:30 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Michael Lange (12019-06-22): > > I did investigate some more, now as far as I can see this is actually > > not true. spumux only creates a .sub file but the .idx file is > > missing. This seems to be no good except with DVDs. Besides

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

2019-06-24 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:42:37PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-06-22, Andy Smith wrote: > > I am not aware of any other compression tool that offers to do what > > gzip's --rsyncable option does, but I owuld be interested if there > > are some that I overlooked. > > zstd introduced an '--rsyncab

Re: Numeric keypad not working on Gnome lock screen

2019-06-24 Thread Steven Post
(Please keep me in CC, as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list) On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 19:16 +0300, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Lu, 13 mai 19, 11:29:10, Steven Post wrote: > > > > Recently the numeric keypad stopped working on the Gnome lock screen. > > More information would be necess

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Sat 22 Jun 2019 at 20:45:59 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: > On 22/06/19 3:01 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 19 Jun 2019 at 04:23:15 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 19/06/19 4:12 AM, David Wright wrote: > >>> On Mon 17 Jun 2019 at 10:38:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > But

Re: Problem to locate bug

2019-06-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, sj...@uranus.uni-freiburg.de wrote: > As far as I can see, this behaviour may only be > caused by [1-4] out of 4 programs: lxterminal, qutebrowser, evolution, > openbox. Consider to use alternatives for a few days until it is clear whether avoiding one or more of the suspects makes the freeze

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized [SOLVED + lessons learned]

2019-06-24 Thread Ross Boylan
ORIGINAL PROBLEM Move disks into a new system (hardware) and found I couldn't boot into the old system (OS on the disk). The initrd couldn't even see the drives. CAUSE New hardware required drivers missing from the initrd, which had been created with MODULES=dep. Also, fstab referenced a drive

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:10:49 +0100 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-06-24 11:32, Michael Lange wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:23:15 +0100 > > mick crane wrote: > > > > (...) > >> > which seems to work well here). > >> > The feature set this app offers looks rather impressive, ob

Re: Unreliable systemd user service

2019-06-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi > Why is there no "the graphical session is ready" > systemd target? There is, incidentally it is named graphical-session.target :-) See man systemd.special Unfortunately, no display/session manager is hooked up yet to manage the lifetime of that target, so you can't make use of that target

Problem to locate bug

2019-06-24 Thread sj126
Dear all, for some weeks (or months perhaps already), my screen freezes suddenly and once in a while without any chance to de-freeze it again. I don't know wether my input is recognized after such a freeze, but I don't think so. (I should've tested this before writing to you…) The thing is that

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-24 11:32, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:23:15 +0100 mick crane wrote: (...) > which seems to work well here). > The feature set this app offers looks rather impressive, obviously > it's far superior to similar programs that come with debian. And it > can create >

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I was finally able to find an app which does what I want > (https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/) Any chance this can be packaged for Debian? Stefan

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

2019-06-24 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-22, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 07:59:18PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> I was refering to the long option --rsyncable of gzip(1). > > I am not aware of any other compression tool that offers to do what > gzip's --rsyncable option does, but I owuld be interes

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:23:15 +0100 mick crane wrote: (...) > > which seems to work well here). > > The feature set this app offers looks rather impressive, obviously > > it's far superior to similar programs that come with debian. And it > > can create > > good looking vobsub subtitles in le

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-06-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/14/19, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > During the boot process there are several mount "jobs" > started, and they all finish/fail with two messages; > > Dependency failed for ... > Timeout waiting for ... > > that is except for root. > > I removed all the mounts for user part

Re: [solved]Re: Converting text subtitles to vobsub

2019-06-24 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-23 15:31, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:54:30 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: Michael Lange (12019-06-22): > I did investigate some more, now as far as I can see this is actually > not true. spumux only creates a .sub file but the .idx file is > missing. This seems to

Re: Install backport during netinstall installation process

2019-06-24 Thread andreimpopescu
On Jo, 16 mai 19, 14:01:43, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I've been struggling to fully setup some machines with A2SDi-8C-HLN4F > motherboards and Intel x553 NICs (which require recent ixgbe support) as > Debian stable machines. > > Thanks to considerable help from this list, I've been able to > su

Do Brother DCP-1510 drivers install ok ?

2019-06-24 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, Do the Brother DCP-1510 printer drivers install ok ? The last time the install script wiped /opt except for it self . So far on having a look one sees that they say to run lppasswd except this command is not on the system and has been deprecated from cups. On a previous release o

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-06-24 Thread andreimpopescu
On Ma, 14 mai 19, 16:38:37, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system continue on > with the boot process? You could start by attaching your /etc/fstab and copy-pasting the output of 'lsblk -f' with all partitions mounted. It would also be useful to kn