Re: Xorg fails, no gui: systemd issue?

2023-12-09 Thread tomas
On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 12:57:59AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 3:01 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 06:13:59PM +, John - wrote: > > > Since I last (3 December) upgraded the software (sid) on my old > > > Thinkpad, my gui fails to come u

Re: mpv "some-gif-file.gif" fullscreen and quit, auto exits/kills wayland/ "logs out"

2023-12-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Some years ago, I ran sid for a few years. Only recall one Xorg issue where I needed low level deb os surgery during that time. Is sid still similarly stable, or less so in the wayland era (for anyone using wayland/mutter)? A benefit of using sid is that I am using software versions (e.g mpv and

Re: mpv "some-gif-file.gif" fullscreen and quit, auto exits/kills wayland/ "logs out"

2023-12-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Can reproduce on intel free driver too. Reproduced with .gif, .webm and > .mp4. > > For reference, bug reported just now: > > https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1743 Anyone know how I can test further, or should I report this against mutter? mpv bug closed: https://github.com/mpv-pla

Re: Xorg fails, no gui: systemd issue?

2023-12-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 12:57:59AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 3:01 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Today is the 8th of December - strictly, that's barely a business week. > > > > Debian expressly comes with no guarantees. You are running sid a.k.a > > unstable

Re: Xorg fails, no gui: systemd issue?

2023-12-09 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 3:01 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 06:13:59PM +, John - wrote: > > Since I last (3 December) upgraded the software (sid) on my old Thinkpad, > > my gui fails to come up. The last line of /var/log/Xorg.0.log reads: > > (EE) systemd-login: faile

CUPS classes wrecking printing

2023-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
I've running Debian/Bookworm (stable) on an AMD64 system - a laptop. It's a fresh install of Debian from about 6 months back that has been kept up to date. Each December I am involved in an event that requires me to use 3 photo-printers to print a lot of 4x6 photos. It takes 2 or 3 printers to

Re: ToG Linux (first draft of a RFC) ...

2023-12-09 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 12/9/23, Albretch Mueller wrote: > the CIA was giving money to Ukrainian people but in > order to get it they had to use their cell phones ;-) which (cell phones) they would also get "for free", mind you. And well ..., yes, even if you remove the networking hard and software, all RF devices

Re: Apt 2 not fully installed or removed.

2023-12-09 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 9:07 AM Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 02:26:41AM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > I figured out the problem and apt is working fine now. > > It would be nice for you to elaborate, both to satisfy my curiosity > 😀 and to provide a search engin

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Joe
On Sat, 9 Dec 2023 19:18:20 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 9 Dec 2023 20:54 +0200, from ale...@nanoid.net (Alexis Grigoriou): > > I just upgraded to Bookworm this morning. I did reboot a couple of > > times but there seems to be no problem (yet). Is there anything I >

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 9 Dec 2023 14:26 -0500, from g...@wooledge.org (Greg Wooledge): >> If you upgraded this morning, then I would expect that you are okay >> for now. > > That doesn't appear to be true. > >> Per #5 in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843 >> the bug is present in kernel Debian

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Richmond
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 07:18:20PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> If you upgraded this morning, then I would expect that you are okay >> for now. > > That doesn't appear to be true. > >> Per #5 in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843 >> the bug is p

File systems mounted under `/media/root/` ?

2023-12-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
Recently I noticed some unused ext4 filesystems (i.e. filesystems that aren't in /etc/fstab, that I normally don't mount, typically because they're snapshots or backups) "magically" mounted as `/media/root/`. This is on a headless ARM board running Debian stable. Not sure when this happen, but I

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 07:18:20PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > If you upgraded this morning, then I would expect that you are okay > for now. That doesn't appear to be true. > Per #5 in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843 > the bug is present in kernel Debian package ve

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 9 Dec 2023 20:54 +0200, from ale...@nanoid.net (Alexis Grigoriou): > I just upgraded to Bookworm this morning. I did reboot a couple of > times but there seems to be no problem (yet). Is there anything I > should look for or do other than rebooting? If you upgraded this morning, then I would ex

Re: ToG Linux (first draft of a RFC) ...

2023-12-09 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 12/9/23, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On 09.12.23 at 10:13, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> > As anyone could see you could even run a network of detached >> > computers without networking interfaces in a "touch of God" kind of >> > way ... Thank you. I should have more clearly stated that those comp

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Alexis Grigoriou
On Sat, 2023-12-09 at 13:09 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > The new kernel release is reported to contain an ext4 data > corruption bug. It's prudent not to upgrade, or if you have > started to upgrade, not to reboot, until a new kernel release > is prepared. > I just upgraded to Bookworm this m

Re: Xorg fails, no gui: systemd issue?

2023-12-09 Thread John -
Thanks for answering and thanks for the advice, most of which I agree with, since I've been running sd since 2006.Since I am now 84, I'm not as good at figuring things out as I used to be, so if anyone else can offer help, I'd be grateful. On Friday, December 8, 2023 at 03:36:19 PM EST, And

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Markus Schönhaber
09.12.23, 19:09 +0100, Dan Ritter: > https://fulda.social/@Ganneff/111551628003050712 > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843 > > The new kernel release is reported to contain an ext4 data > corruption bug. It's prudent not to upgrade, or if you have > started to upgrade, n

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks for the tip. I updated this morning well before any announcements and having seen this I rebooted into the 6.1.0-12 (6.1.52) package. Good thing old kernels are kept around. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is t

IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Dan Ritter
https://fulda.social/@Ganneff/111551628003050712 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843 The new kernel release is reported to contain an ext4 data corruption bug. It's prudent not to upgrade, or if you have started to upgrade, not to reboot, until a new kernel release is pre

Re: Could not find interfaces configuration file /etc/network/interfaces in Debian Linux 11 (bullseye)

2023-12-09 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
On Friday, December 8th, 2023 at 11:23 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming writes: > > > You managed to install OpenWRT on an Ubiquiti router? > > > Yes. It was quite straightforward. Instructions on the OpenWRT site. > -- > John Hasler > j...@sugarbit.com > Elmwood,

Re: ToG Linux (first draft of a RFC) ...

2023-12-09 Thread John Hasler
Greg writes: > Is he simply talking about sneakernet? A human administrator, whom I > imagine to be the "god" in this scenario, walks around and room and > types things on each computer as needed? Carrying removable media around. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: ToG Linux (first draft of a RFC) ...

2023-12-09 Thread John Hasler
Arno writes: > At this point it becomes quite clear that we have a misunderstanding > at a very low level. Sentences like "run a network of ... computers > without networking interfaces" are something I can not really grasp > with the facilities I have. You could run a slow network by mailing remo

Re: ToG Linux (first draft of a RFC) ...

2023-12-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 02:50:16PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > On 09.12.23 at 10:13, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > As anyone could see you could even run a network of detached > > computers without networking interfaces in a "touch of God" kind of > > way, > > At this point it becomes quite clear

Re: debian forgot usr pw

2023-12-09 Thread Pocket
On 12/9/23 01:29, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 7:56 AM Pocket wrote: On 12/8/23 00:05, John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: >> AND (horrors) have written it down. > That's the right thing to do. Well you could always use the universal password of pas

Re: ToG Linux (first draft of a RFC) ...

2023-12-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 09.12.23 at 10:13, Albretch Mueller wrote: On 12/7/23, Arno Lehmann wrote: it's quite interesting that you use a platform such as wordpress, running code you can not control, to discuss such matters. I was just brainstorming, dumping a stream of consciousness with a relatively co

Re: Apt 2 not fully installed or removed.

2023-12-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 02:26:41AM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > Removing php-horde (5.2.23+debian0-6) ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/php-horde.postrm: 28: /etc/apache2/envvars: > > /etc/default/locale: Permission denied > I figured out the problem and apt is working fine now. Was it the pe

Re: ToG Linux (first draft of a RFC) ...

2023-12-09 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 12/9/23, Albretch Mueller wrote: > As anyone could see you could even run a network of detached > computers without networking interfaces in a "touch of God" kind of > way, some sort of "leased One-time pad touches of God" specifically > for each, all coordinated through and which data/informa

Re: ntpsec as server questions

2023-12-09 Thread Max Nikulin
On 08/12/2023 23:12, Bonno Bloksma wrote: So, in pseudo code bool isleapyear (int year) { return false; I've heard such a calendar was in use in ancient Egypt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sothic_cycle Its disadvantage was that crop reaping and tax paying dates were slowly becoming

Re: Hardware TOTP on Linux

2023-12-09 Thread Andre Rodier
On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 19:11 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 7:36 AM Andre Rodier wrote: > > > > First, if this post is off-topic, feel free to give me other > > mailing lists. > > The eevblog may be another place to ask. But be warned, the folks on > the eevblog can get rea

Re: ToG Linux (first draft of a RFC) ...

2023-12-09 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 12/7/23, Arno Lehmann wrote: > it's quite interesting that you use a platform such as wordpress, > running code you can not control, to discuss such matters. I was just brainstorming, dumping a stream of consciousness with a relatively comprehensive outline of the main ideas. > Wouldn't it b

Re: Image handling in mutt

2023-12-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 8 Dec 2023 at 17:06, Pocket wrote: > In Unix and Linux there isn't a file extension, that is a microsoft > invention. Predates MS by years. Systems like RSTS/E on PDP-11s, just to name one. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2