xterm font and other options

2023-08-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/08/2023 14:55, Karl Vogel wrote: #!/bin/sh ... # -fa 'xft:...' font size and weight ... ( $XTERM $geo $topts -fa "$FONT" -title "Remote" ) & Xterm configuration options may be put to ~/.Xresources, e.g. xterm*VT100.faceName: ... I am curious if there are actual ad

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:19:00AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 21/08/2023 01:48, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Some shell features do change over time, but the significant > > ordering of redirections has remained stable ever since the original > > Bourne shell. > > An exercise that relies on order

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 21/08/2023 01:05, Felix Miata wrote: In the most recent versions of Konsole I've started (5.27.x), the default profile has inexplicably been changed from /bin/bash to /bin/sh. Is it konsole or plasma version? May it happen that /bin/sh was just saved to your konsole config files or it is

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 21/08/2023 01:48, Greg Wooledge wrote: Some shell features do change over time, but the significant ordering of redirections has remained stable ever since the original Bourne shell. An exercise that relies on order of redirections and thus demonstrates its importance: Swap stderr and std

Re: mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-20 Thread Bhasker C V
Thanks Nicholas However, it doesnt to my knowledge looks like an issue with mailx or sendmail (I use exim4). The reason i derive at at is because the whole thing works the moment i disable selinux. What i wonder is why selinux is not complaining about the failure ? No logs whatsoever ... On Mon,

Re: mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-20 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 9:20 AM Bhasker C V wrote: > Finally i switched on the enforcing mode on my linux system > Pretty much everything is working except > > ``` > $ echo hello | mail -s test x...@yyy.xyz > 2023-08-20 14:39:30 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P no recipients found > in headers > C

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 15:45 James H. H. Lampert wrote: > What Herr Rönnquist said. > And given that I actually *do* set type with some regularity, ... > (And for the record, my "go-to fonts" are all versions of Garamond.) Wow, another Garamond lover! I do, too, love it (and bought a copy of

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread piorunz
On 20/08/2023 18:31, Longhao.Chen wrote: Only one file was erroneous, but now it's not just the erroneous file that has disappeared, over eight thousand other files have disappeared as well. The disappeared files seem to be those that were recently modified or newly created. I create a snapsho

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 10:14:20PM +0200, Christoph K. wrote: And I loathe fonts in which the numerals 3, 5, 6, and 9 are not radically different. Interesting point. Didn't pay much attention to these numerals, yet. Back in the 1970's, I ran across a detailed study of character shape with res

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread gene heskett
On 8/20/23 14:23, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 02:05:49PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Bob Weber composed on 2023-08-20 11:04 (UTC-0400): gene heskett wrote: I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in Konsole. What terminal actually uses bash for the heavy

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread Christoph K.
Am Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:16:25 + schrieb "Russell L. Harris" : > I am concerned primarily with the distinction between numeral 1 and > lower case L. Of course, 'l' and 'I' was just the most prominent example. Usually I look at 1lI| (numeral one, small 'L' capital 'L', Pipe) > And I loathe fon

Re: REeLooking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Hmm. IBM Plex. Not bad-looking, and it does solve the stated problem. I will note that like Bistream Swiss Monospaced, it's only *nominally* sans-serif, in that it has slab-serifs (Stymie-style, rather than Clarendon-style) on the capital I, and one small slab-serif on the lowercase l. -- JH

Re: REeLooking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread Christoph K.
> Have a look at: https://github.com/IBM/plex > it is very readable. > Rolf > Thank you, that's something I've been looking for. There's even a debian package ... apt-get install fonts-ibm-plex ... did do the job. Best regards, Christoph

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread James H. H. Lampert
What Herr Rönnquist said. And given that I actually *do* set type with some regularity, I can say from experience that, with the exception of some monospaced examples that are only *nominally* sans-serif (e.g., Bitstream Swiss Monospaced), sans-serif fonts in which uppercase I and lowercase l

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > And that order of arguments is not mentioned in the bash scripting > manual It isn't an argument. It's an instruction to the shell. See the REDIRECTION section of the bash man page. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 02:27:38PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > I should have prefaced cmd with a $ sign but forgot to add it in my post, > cmd was meant to be whatever I wanted to trace, in this case digiKam which > is the current 8.1.0 AppImage, probably updated by now as the do that about > mont

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread gene heskett
On 8/20/23 10:52, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 8/20/23, gene heskett wrote: I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in Konsole. What terminal actually uses bash for the heavy lifting? Well, I started out attempting to play along in xfce4-terminal and received: bash: tmp/

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 02:05:49PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Bob Weber composed on 2023-08-20 11:04 (UTC-0400): > > > gene heskett wrote: > > >> I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in Konsole. > >> What > >> terminal actually uses bash for the heavy lifting? > > > I

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread gene heskett
On 8/20/23 10:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 10:28:44AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in Konsole. What terminal actually uses bash for the heavy lifting? The terminal is irrelevant. This is entirely done in the shell

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Felix Miata
Bob Weber composed on 2023-08-20 11:04 (UTC-0400): > gene heskett wrote: >> I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in Konsole. >> What >> terminal actually uses bash for the heavy lifting? > In konsole its in the settings for the profile you are using.  Mine just says >

Re: Bookworm boot stacks with black screen after NVIDIA driver installed.

2023-08-20 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:31:52 +0300, Махно wrote: > Hello. Just stick with open source video driver nouveau. This is what I'm doing right now. However it performes, as I already said, "good enough". Meaning there are some problems. It freezes the system from time to time. Well, for now I do not h

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread Longhao.Chen
Only one file was erroneous, but now it's not just the erroneous file that has disappeared, over eight thousand other files have disappeared as well. The disappeared files seem to be those that were recently modified or newly created. I create a snapshot every day, and each snapshot is kept for

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread piorunz
Ok. You said file with error has disappeared from the system. Is that still the case? If there anything you need to "recover"? If file with error is already gone, then you should have no more errors while reading the drive to backup it. On 20/08/2023 13:24, Longhao.Chen wrote: Thanks for your r

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread Frank
Op 19-08-2023 om 21:19 schreef Christoph K.: I'm unsatisfied with the default sans font in debian for use in the graphical user interface (in my case XFCE). To be honest, I've long since forgotten what the default is. I've used Liberation Mono Regular everywhere in my Xfce DE for ages and I hav

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/20/23 10:28, gene heskett wrote: I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in Konsole. What terminal actually uses bash for the heavy lifting? Cheers, Gene Heskett. In konsole its in the settings for the profile you are using.  Mine just says bash not /usr/bin/bash. 

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/20/23, gene heskett wrote: > I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in > Konsole. What terminal actually uses bash for the heavy lifting? Well, I started out attempting to play along in xfce4-terminal and received: bash: tmp/cmd.log: No such file or directory Next I

Re: Grub Error

2023-08-20 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Thank you for your reply.  Fortunately, I was able to fix the problem with the help of another respondent to my plea. Help from folks like you and your colleagues on the 'net  has kept my Computational Chemistry research  going  has since the early days of Slackware On 08/20/2023 10:30 AM,

Re: Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 10:28:44AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in Konsole. > What terminal actually uses bash for the heavy lifting? The terminal is irrelevant. This is entirely done in the shell. Your redirections are backwards. If

Re: Grub Error

2023-08-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Aug 2023 14:30 +, from 2695bd53d...@ewoof.net (Michael Kjörling): > On 20 Aug 2023 08:14 -0400, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net: >> error: no such device; 1d937ccf-2b57-4dcd-97d9-83522d7s04f1. >> >> error: unknown filesystem. >> >> grub fescue> > > Quite often this type of error is caused

Re: Debian installer preseed fails

2023-08-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Aug 2023 15:02 +0200, from ce...@oziosi.org (Ceppo): > d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean false > d-i apt-setup/non-free-firmware boolean false > d-i apt-setup/non-free boolean false > d-i apt-setup/contrib boolean false > > but package intel-microcode from non-free-firmware

Re: Grub Error

2023-08-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Aug 2023 08:14 -0400, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net: > error: no such device; 1d937ccf-2b57-4dcd-97d9-83522d7s04f1. > > error: unknown filesystem. > > grub fescue> Quite often this type of error is caused by grub.cfg being either corrupted or out of sync with the reality of your system's sto

Konsole is not bash

2023-08-20 Thread gene heskett
I cannot make bashes redirection (cmd 2>&1 >tmp/cmd.log) work in Konsole. What terminal actually uses bash for the heavy lifting? Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 19

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread Longhao.Chen
>Why not btrfs check? 'btrfs check' also reported a checksum error. >As already suggested, you might do better looking elsewhere for help. >Perhaps the linux-btrfs mailing list? Thank you for your suggestion, I am preparing to seek help from linux-btrfs mailing list. On August 20, 2023 12:54:01

mailx and selinux not co-operating

2023-08-20 Thread Bhasker C V
Finally i switched on the enforcing mode on my linux system Pretty much everything is working except ``` $ echo hello | mail -s test x...@yyy.xyz 2023-08-20 14:39:30 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P 1qXieQ-000Bpa-1P no recipients found in headers Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 ``` howe

Re: Grub Error

2023-08-20 Thread gene heskett
On 8/20/23 08:15, s.mol...@sbcglobal.net wrote: My primary computer is an AMD FM-8320 8-Core Processor.. This morning, when I booted the system I got this result: Grub loading Welcome to GFUB! error: no such device; 1d937ccf-2b57-4dcd-97d9-83522d7s04f1. error: unknown filesystem. grub fescu

Debian installer preseed fails

2023-08-20 Thread Ceppo
Hello. I'm trying to create a custom install image for Debian 12 preseeding the ISO as described at [1]. Amongst other things, I want nothing from non-free-firmware, non-free or contrib to get installed. I therefore set d-i hw-detect/load_firmware boolean false d-i apt-setup/non-free-firmw

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread debian-user
"Longhao.Chen" wrote: > Hello everyone, I use Btrfs as the file system on my laptop. > Yesterday, I was preparing to backup a snapshot to an external hard > drive using btrfs send, and the following error occurred: > > ERROR: send ioctl failed with -5: Input/Output error I use btrfs but don't kno

Re: FW: Grub Error

2023-08-20 Thread Longhao.Chen
You can try manually boot the system from the grub command line, like this: https://superuser.com/questions/1237684/how-to-boot-from-grub-shell Then, you can try running 'update-grub'. On August 20, 2023 12:45:50 PM UTC, s.mol...@sbcglobal.net wrote: >Follow-up: I managed to boot into live system

FW: Grub Error

2023-08-20 Thread s.molnar
Follow-up: I managed to boot into live system. What Do I do now to solve the problem? From: s.mol...@sbcglobal.net Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2023 8:15 AM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Grub Error My primary computer is an AMD FM-8320 8-Core Processor.. This morning, when I bo

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread Longhao.Chen
Thanks for your reply. The disk is a 1TB Samsung SSD with less than 4TiB written, the SMART is completely normal with no errors. I suspect that this error may have been caused by random bit flipping in the memory (DDR4 non-ECC memory). I just want to fix the checksum error (because the file wit

Grub Error

2023-08-20 Thread s.molnar
My primary computer is an AMD FM-8320 8-Core Processor.. This morning, when I booted the system I got this result: Grub loading Welcome to GFUB! error: no such device; 1d937ccf-2b57-4dcd-97d9-83522d7s04f1. error: unknown filesystem. grub fescue> ls results in: <(hd0) (hd0,msdos8

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread piorunz
On 20/08/2023 12:11, Longhao.Chen wrote: Thanks for your reply. I previously read in the btrfs documentation that "when repairing the file system, it is advisable to choose a newer kernel", so I used Ubuntu's livecd for the repair. First of all, did you found the cause of this unrepairable er

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread Longhao.Chen
I'm sorry, because a long time after I sent the first email, I didn't see it in the web archive. I suspected there was a problem during the sending process, so I sent a second one. I apologize for my mistake. >Hello everyone, I use Btrfs as the file system on my laptop. Yesterday, I was >prepar

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread Longhao.Chen
Thanks for your reply. I previously read in the btrfs documentation that "when repairing the file system, it is advisable to choose a newer kernel", so I used Ubuntu's livecd for the repair. >On 20 Aug 2023 17:42 +0800, from longhao.c...@outlook.com (Longhao.Chen): >> LiveCD information: >> >>

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 18:28:56 +0800 "Longhao.Chen" wrote: Hello Longhao.Chen, >Hello everyone, Please be patient. Waiting less that an hour before reposting a question gains you little. This is a users mailing list, not a paid for support forum. Anyone here is volunteering their time. Users

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Aug 2023 17:42 +0800, from longhao.c...@outlook.com (Longhao.Chen): > LiveCD information: > > Linux ubuntu 6.2.0-26-generic #26~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC > Thu Jul 13 16:27:29 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux This mailing list is for users of Debian, where current stable ships

btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread Longhao.Chen
Hello everyone, I use Btrfs as the file system on my laptop. Yesterday, I was preparing to backup a snapshot to an external hard drive using btrfs send, and the following error occurred: ERROR: send ioctl failed with -5: Input/Output error I used btrfs scrub to scan the disk, and the result was

btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread Longhao.Chen
Hello everyone, I use Btrfs as the file system on my laptop. Yesterday, I was preparing to backup a snapshot to an external hard drive using btrfs send, and the following error occurred: ERROR: send ioctl failed with -5: Input/Output error I used btrfs scrub to scan the disk, and the result was

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-20 Thread Karl Vogel
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 03:29:22PM -0400, Christoph K. wrote: > > I'm unsatisfied with the default sans font in debian for use in the > graphical user interface (in my case XFCE). I use BSD and Linux, and my eyesight sucks. For console work (23" monitor that's about 2 feet away) I use an Xterm w