udev applied to SDHC card. Two systems compared.

2021-12-26 Thread peter
Any ideas about why udev assigns a symlink on the desktop system and not on the Sharp Mebius laptop? Thx,... P. Desktop machine. peter@joule:/home/peter$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Rel

Dell Latitude E6520 laptop lockup

2021-12-26 Thread David Christensen
On 12/26/21 9:13 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: David - there's a very similar set of queries on debian-laptop at the moment also about a Dell E6520. Are you using one that has Nvidia graphics with the Nvidia N4200M? Yes. 2021-12-26 21:27:09 root@laalaa ~ # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a

Dell E6250 laptop lockup [WAS Re: Debian 11.1 Firefox ESR 78.15.0esr add-on icons]

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 07:45:15PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/25/21 12:48 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 12/5/21 2:46 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 12/5/21 05:47, David Christensen wrote: > > > > debian-user: > > > > > > > > I installed debian-live-11.1.0-am

Re: Debian 11.1 Firefox ESR 78.15.0esr add-on icons

2021-12-26 Thread David Christensen
On 12/25/21 12:48 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 12/5/21 2:46 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 12/5/21 05:47, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I installed debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso on a Dell Latitude E6520 today: 2021-12-04 19:28:18 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ cat /etc/debian_v

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-26 Thread piorunz
On 21/12/2021 01:06, Kushal Kumaran wrote: As of a day ago, Firefox 91 is now in stable. My thanks to the maintainers of the firefox debian packages and the build toolchains for working on this. I extend my thanks to Debian maintainers also! On both my machines I have removed Mozilla's ESR bi

Re: debian.org/security is wrong to say what it does

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 09:36:47PM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > December 26, 2021 1:25:30 PM CET "Andrew M.A. Cater" > wrote: > > > but that doesn't mean that everything marked as vulnerable is still at risk. > Hi maxwillb I've tried to explain what I understand by the security tracker. The secu

Re: debian.org/security is wrong to say what it does

2021-12-26 Thread maxwillb
December 26, 2021 1:25:30 PM CET "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > but that doesn't mean that everything marked as vulnerable is still at risk. I couldn't understand what you meant, and figured you were referring to some extra hardening done by Debian. Did some googling, and apparently, it's the o

Re: Peak load handling by Debian repository servers ????

2021-12-26 Thread Keith Christian
One could run 'tcpdump' or a while loop logging the output of 'netstat -an' to a file for the duration of the interaction with the Debian servers, then, examine the file afterward.

Documentation reference: [WAS Re: Peak load handling by Debian repository servers ????]

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 08:28:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/26/2021 08:22 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 08:15:54AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > How does Debian repository distribute load during peaks? > > > Where/how is this documented? > > > > > > Cons

Re: Peak load handling by Debian repository servers ????

2021-12-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-12-26 at 09:28, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/26/2021 08:22 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 08:15:54AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> How does Debian repository distribute load during peaks? >>> Where/how is this documented? >>> >>> Consider the case when man

Re: Peak load handling by Debian repository servers ????

2021-12-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/26/2021 08:22 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 08:15:54AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: How does Debian repository distribute load during peaks? Where/how is this documented? Consider the case when many users may specify the same URL in sources.list . If they all try to

Re: Peak load handling by Debian repository servers ????

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 08:15:54AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > How does Debian repository distribute load during peaks? > Where/how is this documented? > > Consider the case when many users may specify the same URL in sources.list . > If they all try to install packages at the same time there c

Peak load handling by Debian repository servers ????

2021-12-26 Thread Richard Owlett
How does Debian repository distribute load during peaks? Where/how is this documented? Consider the case when many users may specify the same URL in sources.list . If they all try to install packages at the same time there could be problems. How does a particular user know which physical serve

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-26 Thread rhkramer
Intentionally top posting: Just in an effort to keep my warning on target, I (and I think the consensus of others on this list) is that the problem that occurred was not an XSS attack). Remember that the incident was that I dialed a known good number of a financial institution 3 times, 2 times

Re: debian.org/security is wrong to say what it does

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 01:19:53AM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > December 25, 2021 4:16:59 PM CET "Andrew M.A. Cater" > wrote: > > > So you're raising issues that everyone knows but can't do a great deal > > about given the difficulties > > I hate to be a broken record, but you could edit > https:

Re: How to see the list of CRITICALLY vulnerable packages in Debian?

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 11:51:50PM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > December 25, 2021 4:16:59 PM CET "Andrew M.A. Cater" > wrote:On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 03:36:12PM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > > > So you're raising issues that everyone knows but can't do a great deal about > > Then what did you mean by "It

Re: linux-image-amd64 (5.10.84-1)

2021-12-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 dec 21, 15:01:27, phil995511 - wrote: > > I had to force the installation of the 5.10.84-1 kernel with this command : > > apt update && apt install linux-image-amd64 -y && apt install > linux-headers-amd64 -y && apt install firmware-linux firmware-linux-nonfree > > I'm afraid I will h