Re: Testing CD preseed oops

2024-07-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:39:47 +0200 john doe wrote: > I guess, this would be more for the debian-boot mailing list, as > apparently this is a regression. Thank you. I have re-sent. (rather than resented :-) > > In my case, I use the Qemu's built-in tftp server. Thanks for the suggestion. I

Testing CD preseed oops

2024-07-28 Thread Charles Curley
I have the latest testing netinst (20240722-03:17), and would like to install it on a virtual machine. I have a preseed file on a USB stick. As this is a virtual machine, the virtual hard drive is at vda, and the USB stick shows up at sda. When I go to load the debconf file, the installer doesn't

Re: Port utilisé mais PID/Program name vide

2024-07-27 Thread Charles
Le 22/07/2024 à 09:45, NoSpam a écrit : Bonjour Le 22/07/2024 à 00:18, Charles a écrit : ls -l /proc/*/fd/* 2>/dev/null | grep 36398 Pas plus efficace, aucune sortie. De mes tests, si netstat n'affiche aucun PID/nom de programme et que l'on ne sait pas par quel demon/application ce/

Re: /var/run disappear after reboot

2024-07-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:07:38 +0800 cor...@free.fr wrote: > I found that after I rebooted the system, the dir /var/run/*** > disappeared. As others have pointed out, stuff in /var/run is supposed to disappear on reboot. > I put my app's web sessions under /var/run. so they got lost. > Is there

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 05:47:58 +0800 cor...@free.fr wrote: > I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. > is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? > for example put them into crontab. I suggest you do the next update manually. Then you can automate the process with

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 18:43:28 -0500 David Wright wrote: > I run the following from root's crontab: > > apt-get -qq -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.14:3142/; > update && apt-get -qq -d -o > Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.14:3142/; dist-upgrade && find >

Re: Port utilisé mais PID/Program name vide

2024-07-21 Thread Charles
-writepid /run/openvpn/server.pid -- Charles

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:39:14 +0100 "mick.crane" wrote: > > * Invest in a decent GPS receiver, and install chrony and gpsd on > > the machine. Doing so may get the system clock in synch faster; it > > may not. Doing that sort of thing is well documented on the gpsd > > home page. > > Wouldn't

Re: How to use /etc/adjtime

2024-06-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:48:03 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have a machine whose RTC clock is drifting significantly and it is > often suspended for several days. I run NTP so the drift I see when > I wake the machine up gets fixed by "stepping" the clock after a > while, but that can take a

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 + Michael Kjörling wrote: > $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's, id="V'$v'">,,g' ./*.html; done > > Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few > files afterwards to make sure that the result is as you intended. Having done that (or

Re: Corrupt MATE configuration due to OPERATOR ERROR

2024-06-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 05:35:17 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > ENVIRONMENT: > Running Debian 9.13 with MATE 1.16.3 on DELL LATITUDE E6410 laptop > an external monitor is used via ARandR 0.1.9 > Using SeaMonkey 2.49.4 for browser and email > Yes. Multiple rev's behind. Doing

Bluetooth/SSH issue

2024-06-16 Thread Charles Curley
On one of my machines, I have some interesting interference. Bluetooth works just fine, and so does networking. Bluetooth is normally disabled. However, when I have Bluetooth turned on (and after I turn it off), SSH is *slow*. I gather that the network controller is also the Bluetooth controller:

Re: Package libllvm12:i386 does not exists on Debian ?

2024-06-16 Thread Charles Curley
ages, you must first enable the i386 packages. I'll let you search for the appropriate instructions. As for why you aren't getting libllvm12 (of any architecture), that is likely because it isn't available in Bookworm. Strip off the version number, and search on that. I get: charles@issola:~$ apt-cache

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:16:00 +1000 Charlie wrote: > I[s] there is a > way to do it at all? Yes. Use Mouse-1 (typically the left-hand mouse button) to swipe the text you want to copy from the xterm. Go to the recipient program, and use Mouse-2 (typically the middle button on the mouse) to paste.

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:44:12 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: > Well, that is not encouraging. Does anyone know how to get the > monitor state programmatically? I'll write my own script based on > that. DFMS works. I mean if the computer won't do it for you, roll > your own. Install arandr, use it

Re: Thinkpad T14 Gen 5, touchpad not detected

2024-06-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 06:51:00 +0200 Timothée Jaussoin wrote: > Is there something in particular I should look for ? > I would look for some of the identifiers in those dmsg lines you showed earlier. See if the touchpad was detected but rejected. That migh give you a clue as to why it was

Re: Thinkpad T14 Gen 5, touchpad not detected

2024-06-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 22:17:49 +0200 Timothée Jaussoin wrote: > If you need some more information I'd be pleased to share whatever is > required :) You might look at the installation logs. /var/log/installer/ -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com

Re: lightdm errors

2024-06-04 Thread Charles Curley
Don't tell just me. Please reply to the list. On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:28:23 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 6/4/24 12:44, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > > I did that a while back, when I set the monitors up this way. They > were arranged correctly on

Re: lightdm errors

2024-06-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 09:55:51 -0400 Eben King wrote: > Jun 04 01:57:07 cerberus lightdm[1547009]: xrandr: cannot find mode > 1920x1200 > > and so on. > > I have three monitors on the onboard connectors. The left > (1920x1080) is tall, the other two (1920x1200) are wide. The default > situation

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 15:25:12 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: > The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year. > They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo Thunderbird's > creation wasn't passed until the next year. The wine was certainly > out by 1957. The Ford

Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 29 May 2024 22:07:17 +0800 Carter Zhang wrote: > but they have respective problems. We can't advise you very well if we don't know what you think their respective problems are. A more important question: What problem would you like to solve? -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD

2024-05-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 24 May 2024 13:08:56 -0400 Paul M Foster wrote: > There is a colon in my aliases file. I just omitted it in the email. Don't do that. Always use copy and paste to convey the contents of a configuration file. Murphy only know what else you inadvertently left out or added. -- Does

Re: Bookworm: Weird Firefox issue

2024-05-22 Thread Charles Curley
age. > > Any ideas? Thanks > > $ aptitude show firefox-esr > Package: firefox-esr  > Version: 115.11.0esr-1~deb12u1 I get what looks like a proper log-in page on both firefox and vivaldi (a derivative of chromium). BTW, they are advising of a change in log

Re: Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray | Partial Solution

2024-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 16 May 2024 14:09:33 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > Onboard is not showing up in the XFCE system tray. Bookworm as > updated. I don't see any Debian bug reports or questions on the home > page. I believe I am not running Wayland. > > Has anyone else seen this? Fix/Workaro

Re: Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray

2024-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 17 May 2024 20:42:10 +0200 Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 02:09:33PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > Onboard is not showing up in the XFCE system tray. Bookworm as > > updated. I don't see any Debian bug reports or questions on the > > home

Re: Knocking on the door

2024-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 17 May 2024 15:49:52 +0200 Maurizio Caloro wrote: >   > > Hello > > > Please i know that this arn't the Dovecot forum, but let me try, on > the log's i have always knocking "unknown user" attempts. > > > > May 15 22:39:31 Dovecot/auth-worker(2602036): Info: conn > > unix:auth-worker

Re: Problème après mise à jour: la machine ne sort plus de veille.

2024-05-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 17, 2024 at 08:41:21AM +0200, Fabien R a écrit : > On 15/05/2024 11:12, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Plus précisément, ni le clavier ni la > > souris ne se réveillent, > J'ai de temps en temps un problème similaire mais seulement avec le touchpad. > Je reload le

Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray

2024-05-16 Thread Charles Curley
Onboard is not showing up in the XFCE system tray. Bookworm as updated. I don't see any Debian bug reports or questions on the home page. I believe I am not running Wayland. Has anyone else seen this? Fix/Workaround? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com

Re: Erreurs tracker-extract: Could not connect to filesystem miner endpoint: Le délai d’attente est dépassé

2024-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
> Le 15/05/2024 à 11:03, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > j'ai des tonnes de ceci dans mes logs système: > > > > mai 15 17:51:18 bubu tracker-extract[1711]: Could not connect to > > filesystem miner endpoint: Le délai d’attente est dépassé > > L

Problème après mise à jour: la machine ne sort plus de veille.

2024-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
reneur ! Bonne journée, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapi

Erreurs tracker-extract: Could not connect to filesystem miner endpoint: Le délai d’attente est dépassé

2024-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
tracker-miner-fs-3.service not found. Je voudrais vraiment enlever ces messages de mes logs, car j'ai un problème plus important à cerner, et ces messages me brouillent la vue… Une suggestion? Librement, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian

Erreurs gsd-media-keys Unable to get default source

2024-05-15 Thread Charles Plessy
0.3.68 à 0.3.66, mais je suis déjà à 0.3.65… Je voudrais vraiment enlever ces messages de mes logs, car j'ai un problème plus important à cerner, et ces messages me brouillent la vue… Une suggestion? Librement, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan

Re: Cindex

2024-05-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 12 May 2024 09:55:55 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > https://www.opencindex.com/about-cindex/ Thank you. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: Cindex

2024-05-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 12 May 2024 17:20:47 +1000 David wrote: > Cindex, the world's premier indexing software, has just gone open > source. Might be a good project for someone who has the time. > > https://www.opencindex.com/ Are you sure it is open source? I cruised the web site and did not see a license.

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 9 May 2024 09:32:32 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: > The error I'm getting is during "Install base system."  The only way > I knew to save the log was with a camera. Even though I resized the > image this list apparently didn't allow the attachment. How else can > I save the log during install?

Re: Adding package to Debian Distro

2024-05-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 9 May 2024 14:09:52 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > I don't think there is a process by which you could add closed-source > IBM software to a bona fide Debian depository, even the non-free one, > which only seems to contain firmware and drivers for closed-sourced > *hardware*. Isn't that what

Re: perte de la touche morte du clavier pour saisir les accents circonflexes depuis une mise à jour système

2024-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
glé le problème après avoir redémarré Firefox. Bonne chance, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting fro

Re: Viewing an an OpenStreetMap tile offline.

2024-05-05 Thread Charles Curley
On 05 May 2024 11:52:32 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, is anyone using Gosm or something similar to view OpenStreetMap > tiles offline? > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gosm foxtrotgps is simple and easy to use. navit is much more flexible but has a much steeper learning curve.

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:57:17 +0200 Marco Moock wrote: > Am 23.04.2024 um 20:40:25 Uhr schrieb Charles Curley: > > > It does not appear to be blocked from here (North America). > > By DNS? It does not appear to be blocked by DNS. charles@jhegaala:~$ host ytdl-

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:15:17 -0300 Markos wrote: > The site https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html > > is blocked? It does not appear to be blocked from here (North America). > > Is there any other alternative to download videos from Youtube in > Linux command line?

Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:41:24 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable > to find if and where any error message is reported. My instance of nm-applet does run, and I see this as part of the boot process: root@hawk:~# journalctl -b |

Re: Help to report a bug related to a usb3 lan adapter driver

2024-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:57:00 +0200 user7415 same wrote: > I had a discussion in stack exchange related to the problem that is > well explained here: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/774594/debian-12-all-of-sudden-my-usb3-lan-adapter-get-assigned-random-mac-address-ea > > For what I

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:28:24 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > I am supposedly running xfc4 as a desktop, but htop says I have a > heck of a lot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff? > Dependencies seem to be protecting it from being removed. You probably are running one or more

Re: What use can i give to linux?

2024-04-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:38:50 -0700 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: > Which is why I still have DOS boxes (running IBM PC-DOS 2000, > with DOSShell, and no WinDoze whatsoever…. You might look into freedos. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com

Re: Debian 12.5: pigz 2.6-1 fails with error message (Upstream issue 111)

2024-04-02 Thread Charles Curley
a problem with your system? I am also using pigz 2.6-1 on Debian 12.5, and I don't see it. charles@hawk:~$ pigz --version pigz 2.6 charles@hawk:~$ pre zlib pigz pigz2.6-1 amd64 zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 amd64 zlib1g-dev 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 amd64 charles@hawk:~$ What versio

Re: Bookworm: Where are the ImageMagick binaries other than `convert`?

2024-04-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 12:07:47 +1030 Christian Gelinek wrote: > I have ImageMagick installed, but only the `convert` binary is in my > path. > > Other binaries like `magick` are not. Where can I find them, why > aren't they installed? man imagemagick -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-04-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 1 Apr 2024 19:00:29 + Andy Smith wrote: > In my view a great example of the "people other than me just need to > get good" fallacy merged with the group of people predisposed to > hate systemd. > > It could have been any direct or indirect dependency of sshd here. > I'm quite sure

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:17:52 +0200 Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: > What could be the deal, when Firefox tries to stop me from unmounting > a stick, after I've accessed files on it through Firefox? I worry > about my stick security. Thanks. It sounds like Firefox has a file open on the stick. To

Re: Bluetooth sound problems Debian 12 GNOME

2024-03-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:32:18 +0300 Jan Krapivin wrote: > Small problem is that LTS Kernel 6.1 doesn’t support this device, so > I have used Liquorix kernel, which I have installed earlier. Though, > I don’t need this kernel, as it haven’t helped me with sound > interrupts, which was my hope at

Re: Bookworm Networking Issues

2024-03-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:54:27 + David wrote: > I am running Bookworm on a thin client and Network-Manger seems to be > the source of my problems. > > I have purged Network-Manager from this thin client, but I can't find > out how to get /etc/network/interface to run. I have added to 2 NIC's

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:30:46 -0700 Steve Sobol wrote: > I already get a ton of legitimate mail from the debian-user mailing > list. Don't need the off-topic crap. Concur. > > Admins, could you please get rid of the people who are contributing > to the noise? Or at least make them aware of

Re: Bookworm, fail2ban and sshd

2024-03-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:59:49 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > I guess it's this old bug: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770171 Yup, thank you. I added the following stanza to /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/curley.conf: [sshd] backend = systemd (The "enabled" pair is already given in

Re: Bookworm, fail2ban and sshd

2024-03-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:27:36 + Andy Smith wrote: > I think you want to set "backend = journald" in > /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf or its usual local override, but I have not > tested this as I still use rsyslogd. Thanks, but no cigar. I also tried setting backend to systemd (as noted in man

Re: logcheck(1) in bookworm 12.5 /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles

2024-03-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:25:52 -0700 cono...@panix.com (John Conover) wrote: > Email from logcheck(1) contains: > > E: File could not be read: /var/log/syslog > E: File could not be read: /var/log/auth.log > > which do not exist in bookworm 12.5. > > The offending file: > >

Bookworm, fail2ban and sshd

2024-03-14 Thread Charles Curley
I'm trying to set fail2ban up on bookworm. It refuses to run with the default configuration (sshd only), reporting: Failed during configuration: Have not found any log file for sshd jail Near as I can figure, fail2ban expects sshd's log file to be /var/log/auth.log. Which does not exist on my

Re: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl and USPS Ground Advantage shipping

2024-03-08 Thread Charles Curley
> My question is, can I use the module to create and print a shipping > label for a USPS Ground Advantage package? charles@jhegaala:~$ apt-cache show libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl Package: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl Version: 1.125-2 Installed-Size: 74 Maintainer: Debian Perl Group

Re: messages on my phone

2024-03-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:39:17 + ghe2001 wrote: > Worst of all, I haven't been able to find out how to delete them :-) To delete them, press and hold the message. A menu will pop up. Hit More…. Hit the trash can in the lower left. If you have a mac, you may be able to delete from it. --

Re: Reportbug Assisance

2024-03-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 20:40:31 -0500 Tom wrote: > Just reminding whomever checks this mailbox, that I am still awaiting > an answer to this question here. Well, I'm no expert on KDE. But if you haven't gotten any other response, as Marco Moock suggested, I'd file it under kinfocenter. Whoever is

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 02:47:06 +0800 hlyg wrote: > wifi connection is good, i suppose both correct time with server > automatically Not necessarily. You should install an NTP client if you haven't already. I suggest systemd-timesyncd. -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: Serious problem with debian 12 bookworm

2024-02-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:58:13 + (UTC) Anastasia Broch wrote: > Hi I'm using debian 12 in Lenovo yoga legion core i5 12th gen with > RTX 3050 and I'm figuring a serious issue using debian 12 on this PC, > … > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone Apparently some people haven't noticed that this

Re: Problem of suspend activities ( debian 12 )

2024-02-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:38:05 +0100 Mansour Nasri wrote: > Hi I'm using debian 12 in Lenovo yoga legion core i5 12th gen with > RTX 3050 and I'm figuring a serious issue using debian 12 on this PC, > When the PC is on sleep mode ( suspend ) it's doesn't wake up anymore > until forcing shutting

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:13:49 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > The debian wiki suggests that the handling of cron/anacron is > > evolving. > > That sounds like a euphemism for "being killed off" by Systemd and > its timers. These days cron and anacron are run as services/timers by systemd.

Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:10:31 +0100 Ralph Aichinger wrote: > I just think this mailing > list probably is not the right place to argue this question. Hear, hear! Those who wish to weigh in have done so. I doubt any further argumentation will change anyone else's mind. Now kindly stop wasting

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:49:54 -0300 Marcelo Laia wrote: > Thank you all for the invaluable assistance provided. Unfortunately, > the issue has resurfaced today. I don't believe it's related to the > age of the hardware, although my Inspiron 5547-A20 is from 2014, as > indicated below: A stab in

Re: Missing http_async_client.so in the `kamailio-extra-modules`

2024-02-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:13:46 +0500 Евгений Гостьков wrote: > Can you add http_async_client.so to deb package > `kamailio-extra-modules` or maybe make distinct deb package like a > `kamailio-http-async-client` ? Have you checked with kamailio support resources (mail lists, web sites, etc.)? If

Re: GRUB lost graphical terminal mode

2024-02-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:04:47 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 19 Feb 2024 22:44 +0100, from borde...@tutanota.com (Borden): > >> Would you be willing to post your /boot/grub/grub.cfg for a setup > >> where you get the blank screen GRUB? > > > > Yeah, I probably

Re: Banning a user from posting to Debian lists

2024-02-19 Thread Charles Kroeger
just checking -- CK

Re: Hard links - How do they work: TANSTAAFL

2024-02-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:15:01 -0800 Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Have you read their FAQ page about hard links? > https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/FAQ.md#how-do-snapshots-with-hard-links-work An excellent writeup. The only thing I would add is that creating a hard link does require an

Re: Package Identification Assistance

2024-02-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:33:16 -0500 Neal Heinecke wrote: > I need to identify the package responsible for creating the software > sources window. There is a minor bug/typo where the first tab reads > "Ubuntu Software" I have no idea what a "software sources window" is. Do you know the name of

Re: simple virt-manager setup

2024-02-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:31:30 +0100 Felix Natter wrote: > Looks like I write my own script, since I don't need snapshots or > incremental backups or even multiple disks :) Take a look at rsnapshot. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com

Re: Unidentified flying subject!

2024-02-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 09 Feb 2024 04:30:14 + Richmond wrote: > So you need to store a lot of data and then verify that it has written > with 'diff'. Yeah. I've been thinking about this. Yeah, I know: dangerous. What I would do is write a function to write 4096 bytes of repeating data, the data being

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:02:36 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Test it with Validrive. > > https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm > > Looks like proprietary software for Windows. badblocks, available in a Debian repo near you, might be a suitable replacement. -- Does anybody read signatures any

Re: D12 Installer does not recognize rtl8xxxu wifi

2024-02-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:24:35 +0100 Felix Natter wrote: > If I start a shell from the installer, I can see that the necessary > module rtl8xxxu is loaded (the same one that is loaded in live > option). So I guess it is a firmware issue. How can I get an > installer with non-free firmware (if that

Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after)

2024-02-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 15:29:21 + Andy Smith wrote: > I do not overly want to buy a Windows licence, run it > in a VM and pass USB through to that VM just to try this. You could try wine. You might need the more recent crossover-office, which is proprietary (but contributes greatly to wine).

Re: Network Problem: Redirection

2024-02-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 15:52:41 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > But I don't think that will solve the routing problem. Well, I was wrong. That did solve the routing problems. I moved the apt-proxy line for the VMs' benefit into a VM's /etc/hosts and took it out of hawk's /etc/hosts. samba is

Re: Network Problem: Redirection

2024-02-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 16:52:48 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > Well, we don't know what's "right" or "wrong" on your networks. These > are private (non-routable) addresses with no meaning to anyone but you > and your fellow network denizens. Agree. > > If you need different name resolution

Re: Network Problem: Redirection

2024-02-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 22:10:19 +0100 Marco Moock wrote: > Sorry for the first post. > Your problem is located in the name resolution. > > Show /etc/nsswitch.conf I have not touched this. root@hawk:~# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service

Re: Network Problem: Redirection

2024-02-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 16:28:06 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > However, when I try to ping samba by host name: > > > > root@hawk:~# ping samba > > PING samba (192.168.122.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > > Note that this is a *different* IP address. Good catch, thank you. > > > # For the benefit of

Network Problem: Redirection

2024-02-02 Thread Charles Curley
I have an interesting network problem. I have a samba service on hawk. I have an alias for it in DNS: root@hawk:~# host samba samba.localdomain is an alias for hawk.localdomain. hawk.localdomain has address 192.168.100.6 root@hawk:~# host hawk hawk.localdomain has address 192.168.100.6

Re: How to insert symbols into emails

2024-01-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:02:20 +0100 Franco Martelli wrote: > I read that for custom sequence I've to create a ~/.XCompose file, > but where can I find the character to map i.e. Greek letters: "α" "β" > "γ" ? Try the gucharmap package. You look a character up by name, and copy it into place. E.g.

Re: Stop packagekitd from downloading updates

2024-01-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:10:46 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > How can I stop those downloads? > > Currently, I did > > systemctl mask packagekit Well, you might just get rid of the package. apt purge packagekit should do it. Less drastic, to simply shut down the current daemon, systemctl

Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

2024-01-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:17:34 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Which leads me to wonder if there is an automated way to install GRUB > on all the EFI partitions. I'm not aware of any existing solutions. Perhaps a script based on: for i in a b c d e ; do echo /dev/sd$i ; grub-install /dev/sd$i ;

Re: SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:33:59 + Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 13:34 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > > As you've already found out, that's not the latest one, and if I'm not > mistaken is the one that introduce a wifi bug [1], so that could > explai

Re: SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:25:58 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 24/01/2024 03:34, Charles Curley wrote: > > So I purged the newer kernel, inux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64 > > The current kernel is linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 > > Perhaps you have not restored your sources.list or ap

SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:19:48 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > I have just installed Bookworm on my ancient Lenovo T520 (2011), > replacing Bullseye. I suspect the problem is somewhere in the video > driver chain. Any thoughts on how to proceed further with this? > > Upon trying to

Re: Debian 12 System Requirement

2024-01-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 04:09:14 + CHENG YING KIT KEITH wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Can I install Debian 11 or 12 with "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ > 2.30GHz" CPU? Do they both support the following application > > Nginx 1.22.1 > PHP 8.2.7 > Mariadb 10.11.4 Debian 11 comes with php

Re: Looking for archive management system for backups burned to optical discs

2024-01-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:27:51 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > debian-user: > > I have a SOHO file server with ~1 TB of data. I would like archive > the data by burning it to a series of optical discs organized by time > (e.g. mtime). I expect to periodically burn additional discs in the >

Re: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input16

2024-01-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 22:41:01 +0100 Geert Stappers wrote: > Hoping that is it possible: > > How to inject key stroke or "button pressed" in > /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input16 ? Thinkwiki might be useful. https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki -- Does anybody read signatures

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-21 Thread Charles Curley
4] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 root@jhegaala:~# VLC also plays MP4 movies just fine. It reports: charles@jhegaala:~/ogg$ VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari (revision 3.0.20-0-g6f0d0ab126b) [55febf968d30] [http] lua interface: Lua

Re: netatalk not on bookworm

2024-01-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:39:21 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > On upgrading from bullseye to bookwork, my netatalk installation has > been nuked. The bullseye package (3.1.12~ds-8+deb11u1) is still > present but no daemon is running nor is my Mac making backups to the > server. > >

Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:02:44 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/01/2024 00:19, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > > [...] > > Have you faced real issues namely with hardware acceleration? Other than this, not that I know of. > > iHD driver is tied first, but your

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:10:28 -0500 gene heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~/src/klipper-docs$ lsblk -d -o > NAME,MAJ:MIN,MODEL,SERIAL,WWN /dev/sd[hijkl] > NAME MAJ:MIN MODEL SERIAL WWN > sdh8:112 Gigastone SSD GSTD02TB230102 > sdi8:128 Gigastone SSD GST02TBG221146 > sdj

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:31:52 -0500 Thomas George wrote: > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.2.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD > Binary-1 with firmware 20231007-10:29]/ bookworm main > non-free-firmware > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free > non-free-firmware > > deb

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

2024-01-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 21:32:44 + (UTC) phoebus phoebus wrote: > I have a client workstation with a proprietary terminal emulator > running on Windows. This PC is connected to a POS printer via a COM > serial port. The client workstation along with the printer and other > connected devices,

Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-13 Thread Charles Curley
I have just installed Bookworm on my ancient Lenovo T520 (2011), replacing Bullseye. I suspect the problem is somewhere in the video driver chain. Any thoughts on how to proceed further with this? Upon trying to run chromium, I get: charles@jhegaala:~$ chromium & [2] 33609 charles@jheg

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

2024-01-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:59:48 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > The real problem here is that we're all blind men trying to grasp > the elephant. A good summary of what we know so far. I suspect that the OP should question whether it's time to scrap the elephant entirely, and re-think the problem de

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:42:54 -0500 gene heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~$ sudo smartctl -i -d /dev/md0p1 Gene, you could try reading the fine man page. The -d option takes an argument, which eats the /dev/md0p1, leaving no device for smartctl to look at. I have no idea what md0p1 is, but I doubt

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-11 Thread Charles Kroeger
> you refused to recognize that the sub-heading contradicts with the > so-called package's description Yes yes, so file a bug report as recommended. > three decades younger than you but you don't have to sound patronizing or > condescending. You started the war. What's wrong with being old?

Re: systemd-timesyncd

2024-01-07 Thread Charles Kroeger
> Quit using Google search. Use DuckDuckGo. Use StartPage instead, aka ixquick.com -- System Information GTK 3.24.39 / GLib 2.78.3 Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8) Operating System: Linux 6.6.9-amd64 (x86_64)

Re: systemd-timesyncd

2024-01-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 10:02:25 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > Isn't it /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf, not /etc/systemd/timesyncd? It > might be a reason why systemd-timesyncd did not follow configuration. It is indeed /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf. However, there is also /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.d/,

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