Re: Weird set -u error

2022-08-26 Thread David Wright
On Sat 27 Aug 2022 at 00:23:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 8/26/22 20:35, David wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 at 10:27, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I get these results as well, with Debian 11's packaged bash. > > Yeah, sorry, I forgot to include, for the record: > > > > $ echo $BASH_VERSION

Re: at wits end

2022-08-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Aug 2022 at 10:53:22 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > printers will be the end of me yet... > > bullseye, up to date as of an hour ago. > > I have 2 printers here; both Brothers, one is a newer Hll2320D > a black & white laser, does duplex flawlessly. > > And an older brother MFC-J6920DW

An aside on having . in PATH, Re: no JAVA_HOME in the path

2022-08-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Aug 2022 at 16:33:40 (+0200), rudu wrote: > On 2022-08-23 9:40 a.m., Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 09:21:38AM -0400, Amn wrote: > > > >     When I type echo $JAVA_HOME, Debian 11's Konsole > > > > displays ... nothing, > > > >     'echo $PATH' reports - > > > > /

Re: Debian 11 Cinnamon Lock Screen Issue

2022-08-22 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Aug 2022 at 14:35:29 (+), Ajay R wrote: > I am using the Cinnamon desktop environment on Debian 11. All but one thing > has been great so far. > When I wake my laptop from suspension by opening the lid, before the lock > screen shows up, I see > a brief flash of the desktop behind.

Re: question about sound

2022-08-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 20 Aug 2022 at 07:46:24 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:55:33PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 08:46:29 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > >

Re: question about sound

2022-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 08:46:29 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > The attraction of a one-liner is partly because of screens > > being around four times wider than high (characterwise). > > Wouldn't it be n

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Aug 2022 at 06:58:20 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:58:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > $ type soxy > > soxy is a function > > soxy () > > { > > [ -z "$1" ] && printf '%s\n' "Usage

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Aug 2022 at 20:00:17 (+), ghe2001 wrote: > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > I started to answer the poster's question and found that, in their infinite > wisdom, the Debian designers seem to have removed Audacity from the upcoming > release, Bookworm. >

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-14 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 Aug 2022 at 05:35:17 (+), Marco wrote: > Am 13. Aug 2022, um 23:42:17 Uhr schrieb David Wright: > > > AFAICT the rest of your post is concerned with global IPv6 addresses > > rather than local (ULA) ones, which is why the prefix for the home > > LAN has t

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

2022-08-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Aug 2022 at 16:09:13 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 8/12/22, David Wright wrote: > > I typed the text at > > the top of the screen in your first image, and got plenty of > > suggestions from Dell, reddit, and some Scottish Uni gamers. > > Basically, w

Re: netperf / MIT License is not open source?

2022-08-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Aug 2022 at 19:23:46 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 13/08/2022 18:30, Lee wrote: > > I just noticed that the netperf package is in the [non-free] repository > >https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/netperf > > which seems wrong. > > > > Is the MIT license really not compatible with open

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Aug 2022 at 09:37:02 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2022-08-13, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 10 Aug 2022 at 08:12:11 (-), Curt wrote: > >> I never realized that local addresses were fundamentally identical in all > >> local networks because there weren'

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Aug 2022 at 08:12:11 (-), Curt wrote: > I never realized that local addresses were fundamentally identical in all > local networks because there weren't enough addresses in the first place, Don't you need them to be identical because otherwise everybody would have to configure their

Re: How could "they" get into your BIOS? ...

2022-08-12 Thread David Wright
On Fri 12 Aug 2022 at 06:53:04 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > not allowing you to boot DL? > When you try to get into your boot options you are entangled into a > nonsense loop ... > I removed the wireless card from that laptop. They want for you to boot > into Windows for obvious reasons. >

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-08-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 12 Aug 2022 at 01:03:45 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 11:21 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > Sorry, for my late reaction. I'd wish I could dedicate myself to > > > coding and reading only. This is what blkid and hwinfo are telling me

Re: apt-cacher-ng problems

2022-08-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 07 Aug 2022 at 08:46:12 (+0100), Tim Woodall wrote: > I installed acng yesterday. Nothing else has changed. > > A script is fetching all of the required packages plus a few others for > amd64,i386,arm64 and armel starting with sid all the way to jessie > > Rather complicated setup: (This d

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-08-04 Thread David Wright
On Thu 04 Aug 2022 at 13:27:34 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 8/4/22 10:47, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > From: Charles Curley > > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:39:00 -0600 > > > The preparation of any storage medium requires at least two steps. To > > > format means ... > > > > > > In an

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-08-04 Thread David Wright
On Wed 03 Aug 2022 at 08:37:24 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: David Wright > Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 14:15:26 -0500 > > So "primary store" probably means Master Copy of Your Data. > > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/primary#Adjective sense 2. > https:

Re: apt-get -qq install

2022-08-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 Aug 2022 at 18:27:22 (+), Victor Sudakov wrote: > I'm trying to quiet apt's output by using `apt-get -qqy` in a CI/CD > pipeline, however I still see ugly stuff like this in my CI/CD log: > > Selecting previously unselected package php-common. > (Reading database ... > (Reading data

Re: Missing OPs (was: Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything)

2022-08-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Jul 2022 at 20:10:44 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2022-07-31, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, July 31, 2022 07:50:54 AM Curt wrote: > >> Maybe the OP (who's disappeared anyway, as they > >> often do) should look there. > > > > Hmm, what's the criteria for determining a missing OP?

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-08-01 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 14:29:32 (+0100), tony van der Hoff wrote: > Thanks for your help. Sadly, I'm not getting very far with this. I > guess I'm not understanding your instructions too well: > > On 27/07/2022 16:07, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Have the running linux system on the machine. Run lsblk

Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Jul 2022 at 06:28:18 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote: > On 7/31/22 04:50, Curt wrote: > > On 2022-07-31, wrote: > > > > Doesn't it seem from the OP that the daemon doesn't > > > > start? > > > I interpret the process list in the original post as showing a > > > running dyn_updater: > > > > >

Re: random data during install

2022-07-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Jul 2022 at 17:19:22 (+0100), Piscium wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 13:49, David wrote: > > > > It seems like preseeding requires the building of an iso? If so that > > > is not I was looking for as there is a bit of work to do that that! > > > > You haven't explained what you're thin

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-07-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Jul 2022 at 07:51:22 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Linux-Fan > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:37:37 +0200 > > Formatting it to ext2 should work and not cause any issues ... > > Other authorities claim "factory format" is optimal and wear of flash > storage is a concern. A revise

Re: random data during install

2022-07-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Jul 2022 at 10:01:11 (+0100), Piscium wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 at 03:04, David Wright wrote: > > > People with more experience of preseeding might comment on > > whether this suggestion would work. I notice that this option > > is available, which might b

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-07-31 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Jul 2022 at 09:13:55 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: David Wright > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:29 -0500 > > When you copy files that have varied permissions onto the FAT, you may > > get warnings about permissions that can't be honoured. (IIRC, copyin

Re: /sbin vs /bin

2022-07-30 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Jul 2022 at 20:21:00 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 02:07:58PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 02:02:21PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > Logging in as root has become taboo. Sudo is the prefered mechanism for > > > running adm

Re: random data during install

2022-07-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 29 Jul 2022 at 19:19:43 (+0100), Piscium wrote: > When using netinst iso to install Debian, one is offered the > possibility of guided install with encrypted LVM. if such a choice is > made the installer fills the partition with random data. That is > generally the correct thing to do but in

Re: /sbin vs /bin

2022-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 23:39:01 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 11:10 PM David Wright > wrote: > > On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 22:37:39 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > > > According to > > > https://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=l

Re: VFAT vs. umask.

2022-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 14:49:03 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > https://tldp.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/partitions.html has this example. > > $ mkdir /dos $ > mount -t msdos -o conv=text,umask=022,uid=100,gid=100 /dev/hda3 /dos > > Therefore a new file receives permissions 755. Correct? With these o

Re: needrestart and xfce4-session

2022-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 08:37:12 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > Any time needrestart is run it complains about xfce4-session running > obsolete binaries or libraries. > > -- > root@ideapc:~# needrestart > Scanning processes... > Scanning candidates..

Re: /sbin vs /bin

2022-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 22:37:39 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > According to > https://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=ldconfig&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386, > > ld config is located inside /sbin and it is installed through the libc-bin. > > Tr

Re: Segcheck HP 600 Deskjet Open Linus open Printer

2022-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 14:27:31 (+), Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Von: David Wright Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2022 19:04 > > On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 16:51:19 (+), Schwibinger Michael wrote: > > > HP printers have a self check. > > > > Yes, and sometimes se

Re: *Now* what is starting ssh-agent?

2022-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 10:35:07 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 10:34:50AM -0300, Chris Mitchell wrote: > > From the output of systemd-cgls I see that the rogue ssh-agent process > > is part of the .scope CGroup corresponding to my X login session. > > > > # systemctl status

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-07-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 06:33:18 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 06:54:32PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > An easy way to locate an ssd is to have it unplugged from the system and > > run lsblk and save that to a file then plug the ssd in and run lsblk again > > saving its

Re: Three unsolvable Problems Printer II

2022-07-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 21:56:44 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 7/27/22 20:25, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On 28 Jul 2022, at 00:36, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > > > > > [...] unless the [driverless] queue was added via lpadmin. > > Just to correct the point, i keep forgetting, it seems even this f

Re: Three unsolvable Problems PRINTER SELFCHECK

2022-07-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 20:22:08 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 14:04:55 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 16:51:19 (+), Schwibinger Michael wrote: > > > HP printers have a self check. > > > > Yes, and sometimes several

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-07-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 15:06:47 (-0500), Albretch Mueller wrote: > I googled: "mount solid state drive" Linux, and I got very few hits > (like 16?) which were mostly totally irrelevant. > I got a laptop with Windows installed on which I installed WSLg. > WIndows and WSLg both seem to detect the SS

Re: Three unsolvable Problems PRINTER SELFCHECK

2022-07-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 16:51:19 (+), Schwibinger Michael wrote: > HP printers have a self check. Yes, and sometimes several (printing, wireless, fax, etc). > You push the button and there is a check page. I don't think HP printers have a button that you can just press and get a test page. Ple

Re: Topic su- sudo su

2022-07-25 Thread David Wright
On Sun 24 Jul 2022 at 12:12:47 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 10:06:07AM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > > > > Hello > > Thank You for help. > > Sorry for forgotten topic. > > > > So > > install is > > I don't quite understand what you are trying to say, The post

Re: odbc_config missing

2022-07-25 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Jul 2022 at 11:47:58 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 10:31 AM David Wright > wrote: > > On Thu 21 Jul 2022 at 10:15:43 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 09:06:53AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > I thoug

Re: odbc_config missing

2022-07-21 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Jul 2022 at 10:42:41 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 10:31 AM David Wright > wrote: > > On Thu 21 Jul 2022 at 10:15:43 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 09:06:53AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > I thoug

Re: I think I've asked before, but how do I get rid of the false positives for a binary file in a -r search?

2022-07-21 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Jul 2022 at 15:32:41 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > I'm looking for the source file in ".scad" format, which it pretty std > text, of a module name > that is likely in a file with a different parent filename, using two > greps, piping  a -r .scad|grep name > in file, but I'm getting 50

Re: odbc_config missing

2022-07-21 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Jul 2022 at 10:15:43 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 09:06:53AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > I thought that was what the attached was (actually for Ubuntu AIUI). > > As I originally wrote, "As if by magic, […] someone else supplies a copy.&

Re: odbc_config missing

2022-07-21 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Jul 2022 at 06:59:13 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -I../../dbinterface > > > > -DUNICODE -DUNIXODBC -I`odbc_config --cflags` -g -O0 -L../dbinterface > > > > -ldbinterface `odbc_config --libs` -lodbcinst -o libodbc_lib.la > > > >

Re: odbc_config missing

2022-07-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Jul 2022 at 14:33:39 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 2:04 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 01:48:34PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > > This sentence from the OP: > > > > > > [quote] > > > I just tried to compile my program and got an error about it.

Re: odbc_config missing

2022-07-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Jul 2022 at 14:35:37 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 2:24 PM Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 12:41:03PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 12:09 PM Reco wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 10:40:45AM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > > > >

Re: odbc_config missing

2022-07-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Jul 2022 at 12:41:03 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 12:09 PM Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 10:40:45AM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > > > I tried to run > > > > > > pkg-config --libs unixodbc >From a position of almost complete ignorance, I would have thought

Re: odbc_config missing

2022-07-19 Thread David Wright
On Tue 19 Jul 2022 at 21:47:06 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > According to unixODBC maintainers, there is a script called odbc_config. > > It looks like this script is missing in Debian. > > I just tried to compile my program and got an error about it. > > How should I handle it? By typing the f

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 19:13:25 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote: > On 7/16/22 5:51 PM, David wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 10:24, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > > > > Some time ago I installed backuppc and then decided to not use it. Even > > > though I purged the program and made sure that I deleted al

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 15:17:03 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 2:26 PM Marco wrote: > > > Am Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:26:44 -0400 > > schrieb Timothy M Butterworth : > > > > > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? > > > > Yes, Pentium 3 600 MH

Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 18:33:11 (+0100), Darac Marjal wrote: > On 16/07/2022 16:26, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I > > ask because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 > > (1985) to i686 Pentium 4 and newer. > > Debian

Re: SSH resources, specifically on certificates (certificate authentication)

2022-07-14 Thread David Wright
On Thu 14 Jul 2022 at 10:00:29 (-0400), Frank Pikelner wrote: > SSH certificate authentication is not complicated and has many > advantages. Some organizations use SSH certificates to provide limited > access for admins to servers. In my opinion using SSH certificates is > preferred to just using

Re: SSH resources, specifically on certificates (certificate authentication)

2022-07-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 18:40:18 (-0400), Dan Purgert wrote: > On Jul 13, 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I seem to have gone down a rabbit hole. > > > > I want(ed?) to set up ssh on my LAN using certificate authentication, and > > am > > having a lot of trouble finding the information I need

Re: Resolve static linking

2022-07-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 00:01:31 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:10 PM David Wright > wrote: > > On Tue 12 Jul 2022 at 21:48:08 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > > > > > igor@debian:~/dbhandler/Debug$ ls -la /usr/local/lib/ > > > [ … ] > &

Re: Resolve static linking

2022-07-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 Jul 2022 at 21:48:08 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > igor@debian:~/dbhandler/Debug$ ls -la /usr/local/lib/ > [ … ] > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 9 16:52 python3.9 > 2. There is python 3.9 folder there > I now I didn't install anything python specific and so the box > should conta

Re: Where is ldconfig

2022-07-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 Jul 2022 at 20:52:47 (-0500), Igor Korot wrote: > In order to test my program I ran "make install". > > This installed it into "/usr/local/{bin,lib} > > So now in order to run the program I need to update > the ld library cache with "ldconfig". > > Unfortunately it is not available by

Re: multiple network interfaces...and a ghost

2022-07-12 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 Jul 2022 at 15:44:41 (+0100), Tixy wrote: > Another idea, is looking for that network name in the logs for the > current boot. > > journalctl -b | grep -B3 enx00e04c534458 > > That'll give you matches with the three lines before so you can see the > context. I'd use grep -B3 -A3 -i

Re: How can I find out why apt-get is keeping a package back?

2022-07-10 Thread David Wright
On Sun 10 Jul 2022 at 15:24:11 (-0700), L L wrote: > How can I find out why apt-get is keeping a package back? I usually look at the output of apt-cache show . For example, after running apt-get update, I currently have linux-image-amd64 held back. Thus: $ apt-cache show linux-image-amd64 Packag

Re: easy package manager for debian based distros

2022-07-09 Thread David Wright
On Sat 09 Jul 2022 at 08:58:36 (-0400), Devin Harper wrote: [reordered into some sort of logical order] > please add the most necessary and common examples of package management > with apt to the synopsis of "man apt". > the commands that should be in the synopsis are "sudo apt update", > "apt sea

Re: odd name of LUKS partition

2022-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Wed 06 Jul 2022 at 03:19:20 (+0100), Piscium wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 at 03:06, David wrote: > > > > Because the drive with the LUKS partition was identified as sdb > > when the installer was running. Perhaps the installer was running > > from sda. This name 'sdb3_crypt' is just an arbitrary

Re: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR Problem

2022-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Wed 06 Jul 2022 at 11:23:00 (+1000), David wrote: [ … ] > Then I tried to look for the name of the package that your system > might be missing ... > > $ locate pam_systemd.so > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_systemd.so > > $ ll /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_systemd.so > -rw-

Re: stopping job before shutdown.

2022-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Jun 2022 at 20:49:40 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 08:42:44PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Will Mengarini wrote: > > > I feel old. > > > http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/Big-Red-Switch.html > > > > Me too. This button pressing for shutdown frightens me.

Re: Changelog unavailable / This change is not coming from a source that supports changelogs

2022-07-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Jul 2022 at 07:24:29 (+0100), Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2022-07-01 at 04:46 +0200, icedgorilla wrote: > > [...] Is this some sort of Man in The Middle attack or is there an easy > > explanation and a simple way to fix? > > # apt changelog openssl (You shouldn't need root for that.) > > Err

Re: SSD Optimization and tweaks - Looking for tips/recomendations

2022-06-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Jun 2022 at 14:17:36 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 02:25:36PM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > > 4. Any other recommendations to improve the performance and lifespan of > > this disk? > > don't worry about it; accept the defaults and you'll be fine I don't remembe

Re: Customizing firefox-esr.

2022-06-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 Jun 2022 at 06:28:06 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > I'm interested in two details of firefox-esr behaviour. > > (1) The usual result of a click of the mouse pointer in a graphical > text editor is a setting of the insertion point. Dragging the pointer > selects an extent. > > A

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-26 Thread David Wright
I've reinserted the opening line of the post I replied to. On Sun 26 Jun 2022 at 17:14:23 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 09:28:21AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 26 Jun 2022 at 09:07:11 (+0200), Hans wrote: > > > > > > In yo

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Sun 26 Jun 2022 at 09:07:11 (+0200), Hans wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. Juni 2022, 08:46:02 CEST schrieb Sven Joachim: > > On 2022-06-25 18:11 +0300, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote: > > > I have an old Dell laptop with Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device > > > (https://wiki.debian.org/wl). It doesn't ha

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

2022-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Sat 25 Jun 2022 at 19:12:30 (+0300), Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote: > On 2022-06-25 18:48, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On 6/25/2022 11:11 AM, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote: > >> How do I get Wifi working right in live mode? I would prefer Debian, but > >> any Linux ready-to-use image woul

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Sat 25 Jun 2022 at 09:37:32 (-0400), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > I have four hard drives ion my Bullseye platform; Three SSD's and one > HDD. My current copy of Bullseye is on /dev/sdd1. I have installed a > pristine copy of Bullsye on /dev/sda. > > The installer found the copy of Bullseye on

Re: Suggestions for rm

2022-06-24 Thread David Wright
This is the 3rd attempt to send this message, as it keeps stalling at Connecting to smtp.cox.net... On Fri 24 Jun 2022 at 09:46:38 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > As you have observed here, the worst side effect of "su -" is that it > changes your directory. Well, that's a relief. I've been usin

Re: user perms

2022-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 17 Jun 2022 at 18:14:41 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/17/22 16:29, Anssi Saari wrote: > > gene heskett writes: > > > > > I just did all that, so now I have an /etc/rc.local but not an rc-local > > > but he changes from rc.local to rc-local in the middle. confusing. > > > > > > So wh

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed 22 Jun 2022 at 18:21:10 (-0400), Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On 6/22/2022 5:22 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:25:02 -0400 Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > Anyways it would be nice to do: > > > > > > apt install http://domain/filename.deb > > This strikes me as a nightma

Re: Suggestions for rm [WAS: Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get]

2022-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 24 Jun 2022 at 08:48:05 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, June 24, 2022 03:02:35 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > The last suggestion, and it's the simplest: > > > > rm [filename] -rf > > > > Train your brain and your fingers to move the rf to the end of the command > > so th

Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get

2022-06-22 Thread David Wright
On Wed 22 Jun 2022 at 14:34:41 (-0230), Person the human wrote: > I just want to get everyone's opinion on this before I request it from the > developers or possibly try to add it myself. > > Would it be nice if it was possible to pass a URL to 'apt install' so that > a package could be installed

Re: user perms

2022-06-16 Thread David Wright
On Thu 16 Jun 2022 at 12:22:48 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > As it happens, I find I have (but don't use): > > > $ grep -i ttyusb /lib/udev/rules.d/* > > I actually found this in 50-udev-default.rules: > > KERNEL=="tty[A-Z

Re: user perms

2022-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 06:34:41 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/15/22 01:00, David Wright wrote: What I wrote is slipping into a morass of IDK what. > And I'm going to snip down to what I'm replying to, I think. Yes, I'll join you in snipping. [ … snipped stuf

Re: which X11 app can show wifi info

2022-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 11:16:40 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-06-15 00:19:54 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 03:30:53 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2022-06-14 15:43:40 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 13:15:5

Re: Frozen mouse and keyboard

2022-06-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 09:21:58 (+0100), Mick Ab wrote: > I have a fairly new desktop PC running Debian 11. Recently there have been > a few occasions when the PC has failed to > be woken up in the morning after being left overnight. The mouse and > keyboard are frozen. Sometimes the monitor appears

Re: which X11 app can show wifi info

2022-06-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 03:30:53 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-06-14 15:43:40 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 13:15:56 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > No issues with iwlist and nmcli. > > > > /usr/sbin/wpa_gui and /sbin/wpa_cli should both give sensible outputs > > when

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 23:25:32 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Paul M. Foster wrote: > > > Back in the dark days of early Linux, before CUPS, we printed with > > > printers all the time. There was an infrastructure for doing this. Does > > > anyone remember how that worked? As in, what packages we

Re: user perms

2022-06-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Jun 2022 at 18:20:15 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/14/22 13:25, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 19:03:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gen

Re: user perms

2022-06-14 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 19:03:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/13/22 14:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 01:56:12PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> > > I appear as user 1000 seem to be stuck behind some sort of a >> > permissions wall. > > SHOW. US. > > I got tired of fighti

Re: Debian 10 --> 11 on Dell R740: network interfaces renamed

2022-06-13 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 10:42:07 (+0200), Harald Dunkel wrote: > > If I have to hardwire the interface names to their Mac address as you > suggested, then I don't see a significant difference to the old-style > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules we had till Debian 10, except > that the former

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-13 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 13:06:40 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:20:05 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > Now, I really need a terminal for alt-ctl-F3 that does support the > > mouse. > > charles@hawk:~$ apt show gpm [ … ] > Description: General Purpose Mouse interface >

Re: Screen power save in console mode

2022-06-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 10:14:36 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Jeremy Ardley composed on 2022-06-13 15:49 (UTC+0800): > > > I have a Debain (Armbian) server that does not boot to any form of > > window manager, so what is seen on the screen is just the command console. > > > What I would like  to

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 12:38:37 (+0100), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:24:07 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:58:44AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> I suppose I should have shut down some of processes before running > >> Synaptic. > >That shouldn't be ne

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 03:22:29 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > Debian 11 AMD > > At the end of my weekly UPGRADE session using synaptic, the system > hung. I restarted using the hardware RESET button. The system > booted and found a number of orphaned nodes. > > When I started synaptic a me

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 12:53:31 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/12/22 12:34, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 19:41:34 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > Thanks all, I think I'm making progress. But apparently I'm a new bee at > > > raid s

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 12:20:05 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/12/22 10:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, June 12, 2022 07:53:21 AM gene heskett wrote: > > > What I do have is konsole and termit, no xterm. > > For me, konsole does fine -- I can C&P from it with the mouse (and, > > p

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 19:41:34 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:32:54 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 11:47:46 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > Let me go look at synaptic on the remote machine I've been using to > > > see if its installable. yes, but it

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 19:49:03 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 14:49:07 EDT Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 01:32:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > And I'm back from install 28, booted to the old install, the bios > > > cannot see the drive I just

Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 03:53:49 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Thomas Schmitt composed on 2022-06-12 09:21 (UTC+0200): > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> The fact remains that xterm is not in the pulldown menu's, I have konsole > >> and termit, and termit will work from x and give me mouse driven copy/

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 07:31:36 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 05:39:22 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 10 Jun 2022 at 08:44:22 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > On T

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 07:13:38 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 10 June 2022 08:23:26 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 02:45:20 EDT gene heskett wrote: > > > On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:45:19 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > On Thu 09 Jun

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 11:47:46 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > > >

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Jun 2022 at 08:44:22 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 07:53:20PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:49:40 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 05:15:28PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > So 26th reinstall attempt, followi

Re: which X11 app can show wifi info

2022-06-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 10 Jun 2022 at 22:02:11 (-0400), a wrote: > Sorry, David Wright, i receive your mail late because mail provider > blocks or deletes your mail without informing me > > i use ifup/ifdown to manage wifi connection That suggest that wpa_supplicant is actually managing the conn

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

2022-06-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 23:59:06 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:13:53 EDT mick crane wrote: > > On 2022-06-09 22:15, gene heskett wrote: > > > Posted once as the original .png of 81k, that didn't get thru the > > > server, > > > then I loaed it up in gimp and smunched it d

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

2022-06-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 03:22:56 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2022-06-09 02:59 (UTC-0400): > > > Are you saying that I can partition this new drive with gparted and make > > the d-i use that? That would be the holy grail if so. > > This possibility became reality in antiq

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