Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-10 Thread Luna Jernberg
Or one could unsubscribe using the web interface here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ Den fre 11 aug. 2023 kl 06:36 skrev Charles Curley : > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:20:30 -0700 > glenn green wrote: > > > > > You would probably do better to send that to a special email address > intended f

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 03:42:01PM -0400, Default User wrote: > Hi! > > When backing up my system I have been using this exclusions list: > > /dev/* > /proc/* > /sys/* > /tmp/* > /run/* > /mnt/* > /media/* > /lost+found > > There are many sources online that suggest that "/lost+found" should be

Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:20:30 -0700 glenn green wrote: > You would probably do better to send that to a special email address intended for managing subscriptions. On most lists, you can find it by searching the headers (CTL-H on many mail readers) for "unsubscribe". -- Does anybody read signat

Re: apt policy / listing packages from repo

2023-08-10 Thread Gareth Evans
On Thu 10 Aug 2023, at 18:54, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2023-08-10 09:30 -0500, David Wright wrote: > >>> I was looking for a way to list packages installed from a particular >>> repo and/or sub-repo or whatever it's called (eg. main, non-free). >>> >>> Does anyone know of a way to do this, with a

Re: Weird messages on logs.

2023-08-10 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Sorry, it was late when I posted this.  I am using Bookworm and checked the log not figuring on finding anything and found this. My system has been upgrade to the last fixes for Bookworm.  I am using a Lanova all in one machine.  2TB hard drive with 8 for ram. Moe On 8/8/23 7:57 AM, Henning

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Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-10 Thread Max Nikulin
On 10/08/2023 16:53, gene heskett wrote: On 8/9/23 21:15, Max Nikulin wrote: On 08/08/2023 09:57, gene heskett wrote: dbus-update-activation-environment: error: unable to connect to D-Bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/1000/bus: Connection refused ... Try to figure out at which moment

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 09:15:31PM -0400, Default User wrote: > Fortunately, since my lost+found directories are all empty, I have no > "raw material" to practice extraction on. There's no "extraction". If a file is there, it will be a file. It will have a meaningful owner, group and permission

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread Default User
On Thu, 2023-08-10 at 22:03 +, Minecraftchest1 wrote: > This post on the U&L Stack Exchange sitr summs it up fairly well. > https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/18157. > > In short, `lost+found` is a place for fscheck to link filesystem > entries that don't have an entry anywhere on the file syste

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Aug 2023 at 15:52:02 (-0700), Bob McGowan wrote: > On 8/10/23 03:03 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > > Default User (12023-08-10): > > > > > And, if /lost+found should be excluded, then shouldn't "lost+found" > > > > > in any other directories be excluded from backups as well? Why/why > > > >

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread Bob McGowan
On 8/10/23 03:03 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Default User (12023-08-10): And, if /lost+found should be excluded, then shouldn't "lost+found" in any other directories be excluded from backups as well? Why/why not? Unfortunately, I regret to say that I did not find that the answer to the question(s

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 12:03:26AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Default User (12023-08-10): > > > > And, if /lost+found should be excluded, then shouldn't "lost+found" > > > > in any other directories be excluded from backups as well? Why/why > > > > not? > > > Unfortunately, I regret to say th

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread Nicolas George
Default User (12023-08-10): > > > And, if /lost+found should be excluded, then shouldn't "lost+found" > > > in any other directories be excluded from backups as well? Why/why > > > not? > Unfortunately, I regret to say that I did not find that the answer to > the question(s) about lost+found in t

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread Default User
On Thu, 2023-08-10 at 21:45 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Default User (12023-08-10): > > And, if /lost+found should be excluded, then shouldn't "lost+found" > > in > > any other directories be excluded from backups as well? Why/why > > not? > > Before anybody answers all your question, there is

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread Nicolas George
Default User (12023-08-10): > And, if /lost+found should be excluded, then shouldn't "lost+found" in > any other directories be excluded from backups as well? Why/why not? Before anybody answers all your question, there is something that needs checking: Do you know what lost+found is for? If no

Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-10 Thread Default User
Hi! When backing up my system I have been using this exclusions list: /dev/* /proc/* /sys/* /tmp/* /run/* /mnt/* /media/* /lost+found There are many sources online that suggest that "/lost+found" should be excluded from backups, but I can't seem to find a good explanation for why. I do not kno

Re: apt policy / listing packages from repo

2023-08-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2023-08-10 09:30 -0500, David Wright wrote: >> I was looking for a way to list packages installed from a particular >> repo and/or sub-repo or whatever it's called (eg. main, non-free). >> >> Does anyone know of a way to do this, with apt policy or otherwise? > > What I do in this situation is

svnadmin dump much slower in Bookworm

2023-08-10 Thread kjohnson
A set of svnadmin dump commands that run as part of a backup procedure seem to be _much_ slower in Bookworm than in Bullseye. Prior to the upgrade to Bullseye, these commands took slightly less than one hour. After the upgrade, similar commands (dumping a few more revisions) require more than

Screensaver in KDE (Plasma5)

2023-08-10 Thread Hans
Hi folks, it would be nice if someone could send me the correct settings of libs and binaries, which are related for the screensaver in plasma5. Also I would like to know, if the user hast to be member in a special group related to the screensaver. The problem here is, that I can not deactivat

Re: keybase upgrade / install fails

2023-08-10 Thread Christian Britz
This package is not part of debian, so you should probably try their support channels. Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. For the last two or > three weeks I've been getting messages like below when I use apt: The > keybase package doesn't seem to configure properly

keybase upgrade / install fails

2023-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. For the last two or three weeks I've been getting messages like below when I use apt: The keybase package doesn't seem to configure properly so apt keeps trying, and failing, to finish the package installation. Removing it (not purging) then reins

Re: apt policy / listing packages from repo

2023-08-10 Thread David Wright
On Thu 10 Aug 2023 at 10:46:27 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > There seems to be no mention of > > apt policy > > in either man apt or apt --help. As man apt says: "Much like apt itself, its manpage is intended as an end user interface and as such only mentions the most used commands and

Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-10 Thread gene heskett
On 8/9/23 21:24, Max Nikulin wrote: On 08/08/2023 19:07, gene heskett wrote: digikam for example, does report what I assume is the package name, just running it, reports a couple screens full of Exiv2 errors, but Exiv2 is installed. I have an impression that properly built AppImage should com

Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-10 Thread gene heskett
On 8/9/23 21:15, Max Nikulin wrote: On 08/08/2023 09:57, gene heskett wrote: Xsession: X session started for gene at Tue 27 Jun 2023 02:58:23 PM EDT   ^^^ dbus-update-activation-environment: error: unable to connect to D-Bus: Failed to conne

apt policy / listing packages from repo

2023-08-10 Thread Gareth Evans
There seems to be no mention of apt policy in either man apt or apt --help. I was looking for a way to list packages installed from a particular repo and/or sub-repo or whatever it's called (eg. main, non-free). Does anyone know of a way to do this, with apt policy or otherwise? Thanks, Gare

Problem using pmount

2023-08-10 Thread Sridhar M A
Currently am using debian testing. So far, I was using pmount to mount my usb drive without any issues (am also a member of the plugdev group). Since a couple of days, pmount started failing. Before I explain further, the same drive can be mounted via thunar. This is the error I am seeing: $ pm

Re: debian add mirror after installation

2023-08-10 Thread Luna Jernberg
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList Den tors 10 aug. 2023 kl 09:01 skrev Marco : > > Am 10.08.2023 schrieb Weijun Lu : > > > 1. Is there a way not to select the network mirror site in the > > installation wizard, and reconfigure the network mirror site through > > dpkg-reconfig xxx and other metho