On 2/27/2020 1:25 AM, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 19:59:33 +0100, john doe wrote:
>> I don't understand why I get this error, the file is there
>
> Did you triple-check that? :-) `sudo cryptdisks_start sda1_crypt` will
> do the checking logic for you, but you can also run the cr
On 2/28/2020 6:55 AM, john doe wrote:
> On 2/28/2020 2:07 AM, Ted Baker wrote:
>> I updated /etc/default/locale, LANG=C.UTF-8, then reboot.
>>
>
> You should use 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Locale
>
Also the language in Gnome should be configured in Gnome itself or usin
On 2/28/2020 2:07 AM, Ted Baker wrote:
> I updated /etc/default/locale, LANG=C.UTF-8, then reboot.
>
You should use 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'.
https://wiki.debian.org/Locale
--
John Doe
Gene Heskett wrote:
...
> This library is a joke, the librarian is scared shitless of copyright
> law. When I retired, I had an 18 year collection of McGraw-Hill's
> Electronics magazine, from which anybody that could read, could get
> himself the equ of the best education in electronics availa
sharing this update for interested parties.
The current version of lynx is 2.8.9
It's available at
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/lynx/
2.9.0 Development & patches:
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/index.html
Files:
I updated /etc/default/locale, LANG=C.UTF-8, then reboot.
ted@debian:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
On 2020-02-27 09:41, Lee wrote:
On 2/27/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
... I'm beginning to get a sense
that debian.org has /way/ over-complicated the installation images.
I think they don't do a good job of explaining things for newbies -
especially the implications of "free software only" (or wh
On 2020-02-27 03:46, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 27 feb 20, 02:03:56, John Kaufmann wrote:
Distribution directories:
[1]
cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/
[2]
cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmwa
On Feb 27, 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 01:47:10PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > Interesting that "root from SSH" would behave differently than "local
> > root". That's news to me.
>
> Well, they run different programs, and read different config files.
> A console login us
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 01:47:10PM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote:
> Interesting that "root from SSH" would behave differently than "local
> root". That's news to me.
Well, they run different programs, and read different config files.
A console login uses getty + login, and reads /etc/pam.d/login. An
On Feb 27, 2020, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> On 2/26/20 8:52 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > Are you ssh'ing in as root? If not, is your user's $HOME on the
> > machine's failing disk, or another (remote?) drive?
>
> and I replied (off-List, and *not* intentionally so):
> > Yes. As root.
Interesting
On Thursday 27 February 2020 10:07:18 Lee wrote:
> On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:25:53PM -0500, Lee wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> You're advertising your web server in your sig. The "other side"
> >> ALREADY KNOWS you have a web server there.
> >
> > If that
On 2/26/20 8:52 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
Are you ssh'ing in as root? If not, is your user's $HOME on the
machine's failing disk, or another (remote?) drive?
and I replied (off-List, and *not* intentionally so):
Yes. As root.
Oh, and one other thing, the thing that brought this to my attention
Hi.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:11:10PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> As the box was still running Jessie I had to do the move in two bites.
> First move from Jessie to Stretch, then from Stretch to Buster. The
> entire process was a bit long-winded and spread over a couple of days,
> but s
On 2020-02-27 03:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote:> On Mi, 26 feb 20, 15:19:06, John
Kaufmann wrote:
For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
(1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
(2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
In case it's not obvious, the "firmware" image is the same as the
regular i
Thank you Greg et al:
Well, most people would not want to deal with those are the kinds of
complex issues. No wonder all you find online are all kinds of
problems while trying to do such things.
The romantic, silly side of me still thinks that probably using the
JVM you could find a way to hac
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 05:13:18PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> On 2/27/20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Do you want to search for all files in ~/java whose names end with
> > .java or .txt and which contain the string
> > "java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;" ?
>
> Yes, I do!
Great!
> But
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 04:56:06PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> On 2/27/20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Note the key phrase "when I su into a shell".
> > That is VERY different from "I want each user to have a different locale
> > when they login".
>
> OK, each user should have "language interf
On 2/27/20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> What part of "tell us the actual problem" did you not understand?
>
> Oh, wait. I already know the answer to that one: all of it. :(
>
> Do you want to search for all files in ~/java whose names end with
> .java or .txt and which contain the string
> "java.io.Un
On 02/27/2020 08:51 AM, Reco wrote:
Hi.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:30:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
When I attempted to send the bug the response was:
For how long would it have been reasonable to continue retrying?
You don't retry on a greylist. You wait 20-30-40 minutes and
G.W. Haywood wrote:
>
> As the box was still running Jessie I had to do the move in two bites.
> First move from Jessie to Stretch, then from Stretch to Buster. The
> entire process was a bit long-winded and spread over a couple of days,
> but seemed to go smoothly enough. Immediately, the user
On 2/27/20, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Note the key phrase "when I su into a shell".
> That is VERY different from "I want each user to have a different locale
> when they login".
OK, each user should have "language interfacing personas" LIP (to
call it something) and after (s)he logs in (s)he will
Hi there,
Long time Linux user here, very familiar with tools for system
administration but somewhat stumped by the behaviour of a system
installed by me about six years ago at a local farm. It's an old
Intel 'NUC' like this one:
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/78577/intel-
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 04:46:08PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> > We can't really "see what you mean" until you show us. Why don't you
> > just tell us the actual problem? It can't be THAT embarrassing.
>
> OK, here it is again. You will see that as part of the output you
> will see a bunch
> We can't really "see what you mean" until you show us. Why don't you
> just tell us the actual problem? It can't be THAT embarrassing.
OK, here it is again. You will see that as part of the output you
will see a bunch of paths (with the actual matches) that someone were
not picked by the -pri
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:11:10PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> As the box was still running Jessie I had to do the move in two bites.
> First move from Jessie to Stretch, then from Stretch to Buster.
OK.
> but seemed to go smoothly enough. Immediately, the users started to
> complain about perf
Not necessarily responding to the appropriate post in this thread, so top
posting to make some general comments:
* Can you do it in two lines (instead of a one liner)? Three lines?
Whatever? If so, if you really want a one liner, develop those multiple lines
and then put them all on one l
On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:07:18AM -0500, Lee wrote:
>> On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:25:53PM -0500, Lee wrote:
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> >> You're advertising your web server in your sig. The "other side"
>> >> ALREADY KN
On Thursday, February 27, 2020 09:35:44 AM Gene Heskett wrote:
> This may well be true. But I still doubt its available AT THAT LIBRARY.
> Basically she insists on haveing a receipt that proves the library has
> legally purchased anything offered to lend.
I wonder why she does that? I wonder if
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:30:36 -0500
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Right. You can also use a CD based Linux such as finnix to shrink an
> > existing LVM logical volume (LV), create a new LV for swap, and run
> > mkswap to lay down a swap partition on it.
>
> BTW, you don't need a separate CD or anyt
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 08:54:02 +1100
Keith Bainbridge wrote:
>
>
> I'm having trouble understanding how LVM snapshots works on / if it
> is outside the LVM.
>
I don't think anyone has picked this up. Yes, you do need additional
space.
I've only done it a few times. It basically involves leavi
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:14:04AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-02-27 at 09:56, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:41:18PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Well, partially thank you that did it [...]
> >
> >> $ date; time apt-file search pgm2t
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 09:35:44AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > This may well be true. But I still doubt its available AT THAT LIBRARY.
>
> I was talking about the Wikipedia article. Recommended.
> There must be alternatives. For example Barnes & Noble has it here [1]
On 2020-02-27 at 09:56, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:41:18PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Well, partially thank you that did it [...]
>
>> $ date; time apt-file search pgm2tiff
>> Do 27. Feb 15:30:21 CET 2020
>
> But we did know this one, didn't we? In
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:07:18AM -0500, Lee wrote:
> On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:25:53PM -0500, Lee wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> You're advertising your web server in your sig. The "other side"
> >> ALREADY KNOWS you have a web server there.
> >
> > If th
On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:25:53PM -0500, Lee wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> You're advertising your web server in your sig. The "other side"
>> ALREADY KNOWS you have a web server there.
>
> If that "other side" is reading your emails, that is.
>
> Not a likely scena
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:45:24PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> > Is there any chance that this is an X-Y problem?
>
> If you are referring to:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
>
> I wonder if your own question/mind is. What could possibly be X-Y
> about a multi-lingual set up
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:41:18PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
[...]
> Well, partially thank you that did it [...]
> $ date; time apt-file search pgm2tiff
> Do 27. Feb 15:30:21 CET 2020
But we did know this one, didn't we? Internet searches (for me) turn empty
too. Perhaps pgm2tiff is in th
Hi.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:30:31AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> When I attempted to send the bug the response was:
>
>
> For how long would it have been reasonable to continue retrying?
You don't retry on a greylist. You wait 20-30-40 minutes and try again.
For buxtehude.debian.o
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 09:35:44AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 27 February 2020 09:18:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...]
> > Had you followed my advice, you'd know by now that the lowest layer
> > of your network stack in Linux will throw away any packets arriving
> > from the other si
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> I need to find all files which names satisfy a pattern and contain a
> certain string, then from those files I need to printf some metadata,
> a la:
>
> find "${_SDIR}" -type f -iregex .*"${_X}" -printf '"%TD
> %TT",%Ts,%s,"%P"\
Well, it seems there are aspects relating to such matters which are
pretty straightforward but some aren't at all. If some application
maintainers don't care about such matters (which some politics around
the edges) that makes such matters very difficult to handle and
maintain.
OSs are large, de
On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>> I need to find all files which names satisfy a pattern and contain a
>> certain string, then from those files I need to printf some metadata,
>> a la:
>>
>> find "${_SDIR}" -type f -iregex
> There is a program (aka "tool") called tiff2pdf:
>
> tomas@trotzki:~$ apt-file search tiff2pdf
> hylafax-server: /var/spool/hylafax/bin/tiff2pdf
> libtiff-doc: /usr/share/doc/libtiff-doc/html/man/tiff2pdf.1.html
> libtiff-tools: /usr/bin/tiff2pdf
> libtiff-tools: /usr/share/man/man1/tif
On 2/27/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
> On 2020-02-26 22:49, Peter Ehlert wrote:
>> On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote:
>>> On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
(1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
(2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
and(3) f
On Thursday 27 February 2020 09:18:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:22:53AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 February 2020 03:56:07 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:59:27PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > What i
> Right. You can also use a CD based Linux such as finnix to shrink an
> existing LVM logical volume (LV), create a new LV for swap, and run
> mkswap to lay down a swap partition on it.
BTW, you don't need a separate CD or anything like that: you can use
your initrd for that same purpose. I.e. at
On 2/27/20 12:46 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 27 feb 20, 02:03:56, John Kaufmann wrote:
On 2020-02-26 22:49, Peter Ehlert wrote:
On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote:
On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
(1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
(2) firmware
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:22:53AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 27 February 2020 03:56:07 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:59:27PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > What if they ignore that RST too?
> >
> > Read -- at least skim that wikipedia a
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:18:03AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 27 February 2020 03:50:34 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...]
> > Alternatively go to your paper library [...]
> This library is a joke, the librarian is scared shitless of copyright
> law [...]
> No, that librarian gets no
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:43:42 +1100
Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> OK I am in the process of install debian in vbox. It set up LVM
> using the whole partition, and allowed several logical volumes.
>
> Am I safe to believe that this is what will happen with a SSD when I
> start?
Yes.
>
> I got a pr
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:48:40PM -0600, Greg Marks wrote:
>for file in "${@}"
> do
> files="$files $(pwd | sed
> 's/\/home\//\/home\//g')/\"$file\""
> done
>scp -T -p @[Server IP Address]:"$files" .
Complete and utter failure.
Actually, you got *one* thing right: y
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:48:40 -0600
Greg Marks wrote:
> When using scp to copy files from my server to my laptop (both running
> Debian 10 and both with the same directory tree), I like to back up
> the files in case I discover that I've overwritten a newer version of
> a file with an older versio
On 2/27/2020 6:40 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote:
I need to find all files which names satisfy a pattern and contain a
certain string, then from those files I need to printf some metadata,
a la:
Instead of the lines of the first search by the extensions to look like:
"12/15/18 12:14:16.00
e retry.
n - No, save and exit.
q - Quit.
? - Display this help.
SMTP send failure: (421, b'buxtehude.debian.org: Too much load; please try
again later'). Do you want to retry (or else save the report and exit)?
[Y|n|q|?]? n
Wrote bug report to /tmp/reportbug-timeshift-20200227-5343-vtejhfdd
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:46:55 +0200
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> It might be a good idea to stop building the multiarch image in 2020.
> Most users should install amd64 anyway and those that *really* need
> i386 are likely able to find the correct image anyway.
On the other tentacle, some of us have
On Thursday 27 February 2020 03:56:07 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:59:27PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > What if they ignore that RST too?
>
> Read -- at least skim that wikipedia article (oh, I forgot the ref
> in my other mail upthread, sorry. Here it is:
>
>
On Thursday 27 February 2020 03:50:34 to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > My reasoning too. I'd much druther be a black hole that doesn't even
> > have any Hawking Radiation.
>
> The bigger the hole, the less Hawking radiation :)
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> I need to find all files which names satisfy a pattern and contain a
> certain string, then from those files I need to printf some metadata,
> a la:
>
> find "${_SDIR}" -type f -iregex .*"${_X}" -printf '"%TD
> %TT",%Ts,%s,"%P"\
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:56:33PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> I need to install the packages used by unpaper to help tesseract do its
> magic:
>
> https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/unpaper/unpaper.1
>
> Input and output files can be in either .pbm, .pgm or .ppm format,
> thus generally
On Feb 26, 2020, Greg Marks wrote:
> When using scp to copy files from my server to my laptop (both running
> Debian 10 and both with the same directory tree), I like to back up
> the files in case I discover that I've overwritten a newer version of
> a file with an older version. (I seem to make
I need to find all files which names satisfy a pattern and contain a
certain string, then from those files I need to printf some metadata,
a la:
find "${_SDIR}" -type f -iregex .*"${_X}" -printf '"%TD
%TT",%Ts,%s,"%P"\n' > "${_TMPFL}" 2>&1
I am trying to do all steps in one go, which I think s
I need to install the packages used by unpaper to help tesseract do its magic:
https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/unpaper/unpaper.1
Input and output files can be in either .pbm, .pgm or .ppm format,
thus generally in .pnm format, as also used by the Linux scanning
tools scanimage and scanadf.
Hi.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:20:34PM +, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> Exactly, i wan't reformulate the question.
>
> What should I change there to get these errors disappear?
>
> I'm trying to change some values for example in
>
> /etc/iptables/rules.v6
>
> # Generated by xtables
Greg Marks:
>
> When using scp to copy files from my server to my laptop (both running
> Debian 10 and both with the same directory tree), I like to back up
> the files in case I discover that I've overwritten a newer version of
> a file with an older version.
Fully in the spirit of not actually a
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 09:48:40PM -0600, Greg Marks wrote:
When using scp to copy files from my server to my laptop (both running
Debian 10 and both with the same directory tree), I like to back up
the files in case I discover that I've overwritten a newer version of
a file with an older version
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 08:59:55 +
Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:47:35 -0600
> John Hasler wrote:
>
> Hello John,
>
> >blindly upgrading nightly causes far more problems than it solves.
>
> Because that's what gets asked about. Nobody posts saying;
>
> "I updated lasted nigh
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:47:35 -0600
John Hasler wrote:
> Andrei writes:
> > An entire month without security updates is not the best idea in my
> > opinion.
>
> It appears to me from watching this list that the practice of
> blindly upgrading nightly causes far more problems than it solves.
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:47:35 -0600
John Hasler wrote:
Hello John,
>blindly upgrading nightly causes far more problems than it solves.
Because that's what gets asked about. Nobody posts saying;
"I updated lasted night, and everything worked!"
There's no point.
However, I do recognise that yo
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:59:27PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]
> What if they ignore that RST too?
Read -- at least skim that wikipedia article (oh, I forgot the ref
in my other mail upthread, sorry. Here it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol
Cheers
-- t
sig
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:25:53PM -0500, Lee wrote:
[...]
> You're advertising your web server in your sig. The "other side"
> ALREADY KNOWS you have a web server there.
If that "other side" is reading your emails, that is.
Not a likely scenario if that "other side" is some malware
running in
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]
> My reasoning too. I'd much druther be a black hole that doesn't even have
> any Hawking Radiation.
The bigger the hole, the less Hawking radiation :)
[...]
> In that event, and given that a /24 rule caught them, how many ou
On Jo, 27 feb 20, 02:03:56, John Kaufmann wrote:
> On 2020-02-26 22:49, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> > On 2/26/20 7:20 PM, Lee wrote:
> > > On 2/26/20, John Kaufmann wrote:
> > > > For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
> > > > (1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
> > > > (2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-ne
On Mi, 26 feb 20, 15:19:06, John Kaufmann wrote:
> For my Thinkpad, I burned CDs with:
> (1) debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
> (2) firmware-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
In case it's not obvious, the "firmware" image is the same as the
regular image + firmware (i.e. you don't need both).
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