Re: Virtualization of Windows XP

2024-10-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-10-02 20:14, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Stable on an AMD64 system. I have a number of kvm/qemu virtual machines running on it, including Home Assistant and a Samba DC, along with multiple Windows VMs. Most of them are working fine. However I found a need to fire up a

Virtualization of Windows XP

2024-10-02 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Stable on an AMD64 system. I have a number of kvm/qemu virtual machines running on it, including Home Assistant and a Samba DC, along with multiple Windows VMs. Most of them are working fine. However I found a need to fire up an old Windows XP VM but I can't get it to start.

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-08-20 16:42, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-08-20 15:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 15:28:40 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Look, I know the executable is vncserver. The question is how do I get the service to specify parameters when starting the service? I can start is from the

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-08-20 15:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 15:28:40 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Look, I know the executable is vncserver. The question is how do I get the service to specify parameters when starting the service? I can start is from the command line as "vncserver -localho

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-08-20 15:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 15:04:11 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-08-19 22:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 20/08/2024 05:15, Gary Dale wrote: tigervnc-server has a command line option to listen to the LAN but the Debian systemd service configuration doesn&#

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-08-19 22:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 20/08/2024 05:15, Gary Dale wrote: tigervnc-server has a command line option to listen to the LAN but the Debian systemd service configuration doesn't invoke the server program directly, so I'm not sure how to get the option to the v

Re: upgrade to bookworm causes breakage

2024-08-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-08-19 19:24, Mike wrote: Bob Mroczka wrote: I attempted to upgrade my system from debian 11 to 12 following the instructions provided at https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/update-upgrade-debian-11-to-debian-12-bookworm. In the future, consider using https://www.debian.org/release/stable/ and

configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-19 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on and AMD64 system. I have a need to be able to connect remotely to this machine. My network already is setup for ssh from the outside to go to my main server. From there I would normally use -L port forwarding to connect to a computer on the LAN. However, tigervnc-s

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-08-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-08-17 22:47, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 9:07 PM Gary Dale wrote: [...] Out of frustration with this and another problem, I did a complete fresh install yesterday - first to Bookworm then a full-upgrade to Trixie. I started with a new profile for Firefox then synced

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-08-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-07-19 11:19, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-07-19 11:09, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-07-19 10:42, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-07-19 at 10:34, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-07-18 09:52, Gary Dale wrote: Thanks for the tips guys, but I'm not going to switch to XFCE, I'm using an old AM

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-07-19 11:09, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-07-19 10:42, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-07-19 at 10:34, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-07-18 09:52, Gary Dale wrote: Thanks for the tips guys, but I'm not going to switch to XFCE, I'm using an old AMD graphics card, it's a desktop m

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-07-19 10:42, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-07-19 at 10:34, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-07-18 09:52, Gary Dale wrote: Thanks for the tips guys, but I'm not going to switch to XFCE, I'm using an old AMD graphics card, it's a desktop machine, and the problem isn't specifi

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-07-18 09:52, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-07-17 21:25, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system, using the Plasma 5 over X desktop. Firefox 115.12.0esr is crashing multiple times per day. It frequently happens when page I'm transfers to another page that cre

Re: Nvidia chipsets and Debian 12 [WAS Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?]

2024-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-07-18 13:51, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 10:41:50AM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2024-07-18 at 07:55 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: HOW did you upgrade? Did you go via 11? Fresh install on reformatted boot and root partitions. OK I can't do that with my o

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-07-18 09:52, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-07-17 21:25, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system, using the Plasma 5 over X desktop. Firefox 115.12.0esr is crashing multiple times per day. It frequently happens when page I'm transfers to another page that cre

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-07-17 21:25, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system, using the Plasma 5 over X desktop. Firefox 115.12.0esr is crashing multiple times per day. It frequently happens when page I'm transfers to another page that creates a PDF or just has a complicated

Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-17 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system, using the Plasma 5 over X desktop. Firefox 115.12.0esr is crashing multiple times per day. It frequently happens when page I'm transfers to another page that creates a PDF or just has a complicated link. It's annoying. To visit some pages, I have t

Re: recent Trixie upgrade removed nfs client

2024-04-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-04-30 10:58, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:51:01 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, Not looking for a solution. Just reporting a spate of oddities I've encountered lately. As Erwan says, this is 'normal'. Especially ATM due to the t64 transition. As y

recent Trixie upgrade removed nfs client

2024-04-30 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Trixie on an AMD64 system. Yesterday after doing my usual morning full-upgrade, I rebooted because there were a lot of Plasma-related updates. When I logged in, I found I wasn't connected to my file server shares. I eventually traced this down to a lack of nfs software on my workst

Anaconda-navigator installation problems

2024-03-22 Thread Gary L. Roach
it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized . Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: eglfs, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, webgl, xcb. Aborted (core dumped) Any help will be sincerely appreciated. Gary R.

timeshift error

2024-02-27 Thread Gary L. Roach
aved: /etc/timeshift/timeshift.json I have used timeshift for some time with no problems. This error just started recently. Timeshift run with no argument works fine. Any help will be appreciated. Gary R

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-27 14:13, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 2:12 PM Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-02-27 10:25, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Tue, Feb 27 2024 at 10:15:59 AM, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Can anyone explain how Trixie is handling crontabs now? This behavior has existed forever. I&#

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-27 10:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 10:15:59AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I have an old wifi adapter that Linux has problems with that works once I run: /usr/sbin/modprobe brcmfmac echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-27 10:25, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Tue, Feb 27 2024 at 10:15:59 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I have an old wifi adapter that Linux has problems with that works once I run: /usr/sbin/modprobe brcmfmac echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-27 10:26, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-02-27 at 10:15, Gary Dale wrote: Anyway, that got me down the rabbit hole to try to find where the crontab file is. ls -l /root/cron* ls: cannot access '/root/cron*': No such file or directory also # whereis crontab crontab

where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I have an old wifi adapter that Linux has problems with that works once I run: /usr/sbin/modprobe brcmfmac echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id However when I add those lines to the root's crontab using # crontab -e as @reboot /usr

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 22:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 20:28, Gary Dale wrote: $locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 22:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 20:28, Gary Dale wrote: $locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 22:10, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 20:28, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-02-26 17:31, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 17:18, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-02-26 16:03, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 14:36, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I've installed jami fr

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 21:29, Max Nikulin wrote:   env | grep 'LC_\|LANG'     systemctl --user show-environment | grep 'LC_\|LANG'  $ env | grep 'LC_\|LANG' LANGUAGE=en_GB LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 LANG=iu_CA.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_CA.UTF

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 20:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 08:28:01PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: $locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 17:31, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 17:18, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-02-26 16:03, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 14:36, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I've installed jami from testing but it fails to start. When I run it from the command l

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 16:03, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 14:36, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I've installed jami from testing but it fails to start. When I run it from the command line, I get: $jami & [1] 7804 $ Using Qt runtime version: 6. 4.2 "

running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-26 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I've installed jami from testing but it fails to start. When I run it from the command line, I get: $jami & [1] 7804 $ Using Qt runtime version: 6. 4.2 "notify server name: Plasma, vendor: KDE, version: 5.27.10, spec: 1.2" "Using locale: en_GB" termi

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-02-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-01 02:37, Loren M. Lang wrote: On January 31, 2024 1:28:37 PM PST, hw wrote: On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 09:27 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-01-30 15:54, hw wrote: On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:42 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I'v

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-02-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-31 12:02, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/01/2024 23:42, Gary Dale wrote: "ls -l /" just hangs It may dereference symlinks, call stat, etc. to colorize output. May it happen that you have automount points or something related to network mounts? Does "echo /*" hang

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-29 12:55, Hans wrote: Hi Gary, before loosing any data, I suggest, to boot from a liuvefile linux. Please use a modern livefile like Knoppix or Kali-Linux. If it is not a BIOS problem, you should see the device again and are able to mount it. If /root is on a seperated partition

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-29 11:42, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). This has been happening intermittently for several months. I initially thought it might be related to fa

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-30 15:54, hw wrote: On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:42 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). This has been happening intermittently for several months. I

Can't list root directory

2024-01-29 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). This has been happening intermittently for several months. I initially thought it might be related to failing NVME drive that was part of a RAID1 array th

Is there a problem with Linux-image-6.1.0-16?

2023-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
Several days ago my main server upgraded to kernel 6.1.0-16 but various other devices that are also running Bookworm seem stuck at 6.1.0-13. They are all using the same architecture. Some are using the same mirror as the server that upgraded. I haven't set any special policies on upgrades. Can

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

2023-12-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-12-09 13:09, Dan Ritter wrote: 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 re

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

2023-12-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-12-10 11:56, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 11:50:18AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-12-09 14:18, Michael Kjörling 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

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

2023-12-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-12-10 12:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 05:09:15PM -, Curt wrote: On 2023-12-10, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: "Now" is almost exactly Sun 10 Dec 16:55:43 UTC 2023 You mean in the Zulu Time Zone (as I am all at sea)? Use "date -u" to see current UTC time. That sho

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

2023-12-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-12-09 14:18, Michael Kjörling 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 should look for or do other than rebooting? If

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: balenaEtcher installation problems

2023-11-10 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 11/9/23 18:22, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 8:47 PM Gary L. Roach wrote: Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.0-13-amd64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4

balenaEtcher installation problem

2023-11-09 Thread Gary L. Roach
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balenaEtcher installation problems

2023-11-09 Thread Gary L. Roach
ts of fixes listed on the internet but none of them work. I am using the .deb file down loaded from the balena web page and installing it with dpkg -i . Any help will be sincerely appreciated. Gary R.

Re: network bonding on Debian/Trixie

2023-10-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-16 21:20, Igor Cicimov wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 12:12 PM Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-10-16 18:52, Igor Cicimov wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 8:00 AM Gary Dale wrote: I'm trying to configure network bonding on an AMD64 system ru

Re: network bonding on Debian/Trixie

2023-10-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-16 18:52, Igor Cicimov wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 8:00 AM Gary Dale wrote: I'm trying to configure network bonding on an AMD64 system running Debian/Trixie. I've got a wired connection and a wifi connection, both of which work individually. I'

network bonding on Debian/Trixie

2023-10-16 Thread Gary Dale
I'm trying to configure network bonding on an AMD64 system running Debian/Trixie. I've got a wired connection and a wifi connection, both of which work individually. I'd like them to work together to improve the throughput but for now I'm just trying to get the bond to work. However when I conf

Re: SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-04 02:43, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 9:32 PM Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on a headless server. The box has had a variety of roles and names. At one time it was called fanny after the groundbreaking rock band and because it had a lot of fans

Re: SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-04 03:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 02:43:36AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] $ sudo su - ...better spelt these days as "sudo -i" (or "sudo -s"), see sudo(1)'s man page. Or sudo bash - or whatever your preferred shell is.

Re: SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-03 22:31, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 09:02:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Add a CNAME record to your DNS. Mail delivery is supposed to ignore CNAME records. Perhaps you meant to say an MX record. But either way, the OP's question is still not answered -- where is

Re: SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-03 23:39, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 20:57:57 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: I can't find where the e-mail address is being set. Tracing down the smartmontools config files didn't turn up any obvious problems. The email address is set with the -m option in the

SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-03 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on a headless server. The box has had a variety of roles and names. At one time it was called fanny after the groundbreaking rock band and because it had a lot of fans in it. This latter attribute led to it being made into a file server and renamed BigData. The pro

wierd document under /run/user/1000 directory

2023-08-23 Thread Gary L. Roach
drwxr-xr-x 2 gary gary 120 Aug 20 10:19 akonadi drwx-- 2 gary gary  60 Aug 20 10:19 at-spi srw-rw-rw- 1 gary gary   0 Aug 20 10:18 bus drwx-- 3 gary gary  60 Aug 20 10:18 dbus-1 drwx-- 2 gary gary  60 Aug 20 10:18 dconf *d? ? ?    ?  ?    ? doc* What is with the

keybase upgrade / install fails

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

Re: laptop stopped getting to desktop after latest updates [RESOLVED]

2023-05-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-05-19 23:32, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an ASUS FA506IC laptop. It's got an AMD Ryzen processor but an NVidia graphics card that provides me with great evidence for why I had previously avoided NVidia cards. I'm running Bookworm because I couldn&#

Re: laptop stopped getting to desktop after latest updates

2023-05-22 Thread Gary Dale
Share with the Debian community the X server logs of "Debian" and "systemrescuecd". Groeten Geert Stappers First is the log from a session that failed. Below is a log from a previous session that worked. Sorry, didn't get one from a systemrescuecd session - I thought I'd copied it to a n

Re: laptop stopped getting to desktop after latest updates

2023-05-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-05-19 23:32, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an ASUS FA506IC laptop. It's got an AMD Ryzen processor but an NVidia graphics card that provides me with great evidence for why I had previously avoided NVidia cards. I'm running Bookworm because I couldn&#

laptop stopped getting to desktop after latest updates

2023-05-19 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an ASUS FA506IC laptop. It's got an AMD Ryzen processor but an NVidia graphics card that provides me with great evidence for why I had previously avoided NVidia cards. I'm running Bookworm because I couldn't get it work on Bullseye. It'd been running OK with the

Re: WiFi firmware issue in Bookworm

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-09 22:09, The Wanderer wrote: On 2023-02-09 at 21:39, Gary Dale wrote: I'm trying to use a Linksys AE1200 wifi usb dongle as a second network connection for my Bookworm workstation. The device shows up in lsusb but not in ip link. According to what I've found, it needs th

Re: WiFi firmware issue in Bookworm

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-09 22:07, piorunz wrote: On 10/02/2023 02:39, Gary Dale wrote: Interestingly the device works in Bullseye as I installed Bullseye on the computer that used to use it. That really only required downloading the correct firmware package that contained the brcmfmac module. That package

WiFi firmware issue in Bookworm

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
I'm trying to use a Linksys AE1200 wifi usb dongle as a second network connection for my Bookworm workstation. The device shows up in lsusb but not in ip link. According to what I've found, it needs the brcmfmac driver module, which seems to be in the 6.1 kernel and loaded: $ lsmod | grep br

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-08 10:55, Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-02-08 09:07, Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-02-08 00:55, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 08.02.2023 09:07, Gary Dale wrote: I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet posts going back years about support for

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-09 03:30, Anssi Saari wrote: Gary Dale writes: I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet posts going back years about support for this device but nothing recent - including a 5 year old Ubuntu post saying it works. Other wifi devices seem t

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-08 09:07, Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-02-08 00:55, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 08.02.2023 09:07, Gary Dale wrote: I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet posts going back years about support for this device but nothing recent - includ

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-08 00:55, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 08.02.2023 09:07, Gary Dale wrote: I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet posts going back years about support for this device but nothing recent - including a 5 year old Ubuntu post saying it

support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-07 Thread Gary Dale
I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet posts going back years about support for this device but nothing recent - including a 5 year old Ubuntu post saying it works. Other wifi devices seem to be recognized out of the box or with a simple install of non-fre

Re: Installation of Salome 9.9.0

2023-01-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
Sorry that I didn't catch that one. I just ripped the whole thing out and am going to go to Code_Aster and try to install Salome-Meca. This is probably what I should have done in the first place. Sorry if wasted your time. Thanks for the help. Gary R. On 1/14/23 16:46, Greg Wooledge

Re: Installation of Salome 9.9.0

2023-01-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
PS I had tried ./salome and got the following error: ERROR:salomeContext:Unexpected error: Traceback (most recent call last):  File "/home/gary/Salome/SALOME-9.9.0-native-DB10-SRC/BINARIES-DB10/SALOME/bin/ salome/salomeContext.py", line 281, in _startSalome    res = getattr(sel

Re: Installation of Salome 9.9.0

2023-01-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
The lack of information is because I never got off the ground with this. I did finally figured out how to get ./sat to work and completely cleaned up all of the missing pieces. But then I am a loss of what to do next. My top Salome directory looks like this: drwxr-xr-x  2 gary gary    4096

Installation of Salome 9.9.0

2023-01-14 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I have been trying to install Salome 9.90 from the tar.gz file. When I unzip the file the contents look nothing like the installation instructions that I have found on line. Does anyone have experience with the Debian installation of this package. If so, please help Gary R.

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-19 23:38, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-20 04:16, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:33:19 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, you need to start with Debian/Stable then upgrade That's not correct. You *can* do it that way, but there are installer ISOs for testing. Not with this laptop. The Debian/Te

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. If you want a GNU/Linux

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-17 23:10, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 17 December 2022 9:00:49 pm UTC, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-17 14:58, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:39:51 -0800 David Christensen wrote: … the practical answer is install and find out. There are other ways besides "install[ing] and find[ing] out". https://linux-hardware.org is a very useful tool. And one should consider contr

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an error message about

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug). If I go into recovery mode, I don't get that erro

latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-16 Thread Gary Dale
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug). If I go into recovery mode, I don't get that error but then it stops after a message about the

Re: ASUS Laptops

2022-11-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-11-27 02:15, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 11/27/22 06:50, Gary Dale wrote: I've acquired an ASUS laptop (FA506IC-DS71-CA) and installed Debian on it. I started with Debian/Bullseye but had some problems starting a GUI (using sddm) so quickly did an apt full-upgrade to Bookworm.

ASUS Laptops

2022-11-26 Thread Gary Dale
I've acquired an ASUS laptop (FA506IC-DS71-CA) and installed Debian on it. I started with Debian/Bullseye but had some problems starting a GUI (using sddm) so quickly did an apt full-upgrade to Bookworm. After installing the Realtek and Misc firmware, I'm able to boot into a Plasma5 desktop and

Re: grep replacement using sed is behaving oddly

2022-10-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-10-21 15:14, David Wright wrote: On Fri 21 Oct 2022 at 14:15:01 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 08:01:00PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 01:21:44PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I h

grep replacement using sed is behaving oddly

2022-10-21 Thread Gary Dale
I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I have a line in a lot of HTML files that I'd like to remove. The line is:     I'm testing the sed command to remove it on just one file. When it works, I'll run it against *.html. My command is:  sed -i -s 's/\s*\//g' history.ht

Re: sigc++ library missing object.h file

2022-10-08 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 10/8/22 09:17, Gary L. Roach wrote: Thank you all for your replies, I mean gspeaker not gespeaker. The first is a speaker enclosure design program and the second is a front end for the sound system. Not the same -- damn, I had hopes. I also went back and looked at the older versions of

Re: sigc++ library missing object.h file

2022-10-08 Thread Gary L. Roach
ed to consider it. Many thanks again. Unless someone has specific information  on a source for an object.h file I think we have beaten this dead horse enough. Many thanks again Gary R On 10/8/22 00:57, Max Nikulin wrote: On 08/10/2022 04:54, Gary L. Roach wrote: I've been trying to

sigc++ library missing object.h file

2022-10-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
this program (gspeaker). Removing the # from the offending module only caused a slew of other errors. What would be in this object.h file? Is the data available to gin up a replacement? Please help! Gary R.

gspeaker installation

2022-10-04 Thread Gary L. Roach
b and have found references to the problem but could not find a solution that didn't require modification of the source code. Gary R

Re: How do I install PHPMailer on a Debian/Bullseye Apache2 server -- resolved

2022-09-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-09-07 17:49, Gareth Evans wrote: On 7 Sep 2022, at 22:24, Gareth Evans wrote:  On 7 Sep 2022, at 22:01, Gareth Evans wrote:  On 7 Sep 2022, at 21:27, Gareth Evans wrote:  On 7 Sep 2022, at 17:55, Gary Dale wrote: I'm using a web hosting company that pretty

How do I install PHPMailer on a Debian/Bullseye Apache2 server

2022-09-07 Thread Gary Dale
I'm using a web hosting company that pretty much limits me to using PHPMailer on their servers for sending complex e-mails (e.g. with attachments). That is working. To get it to work, I used the zip archive from the PHPMailer's github page and unzipped it into the site's public directory - so

how to change device number in RAID array

2022-08-22 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. I recently added a second drive to it for use in a RAID1 array. However I'm now getting regular messages about "SparesMissing event on...". cat /proc/mdstat shows the problem: active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[2] - the newly added drive is showing up as

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-17 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 7/17/22 2:07 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Gary L. Roach (12022-07-16): 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 all directories, I still get a backuppc password request when starting any of my programs

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
Kernel Version: 5.10.0-13-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD CAICOS Gary R 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

Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
it. Gary R.

Re: Epson printer page counting error

2022-06-15 Thread Gary L. Roach
localhost:631 brings up a web page that lists most all manufacturers and models. The process is the same for all cups print drivers. Using that is what I meant as "as usual". I've never used anything else. I don't thing anyone else does either. Gary R. On 6/15/22 12:29

Epson printer page counting error

2022-06-15 Thread Gary L. Roach
offset by one page. In other words instead of printing  pages 115 to 120 I get 114-119. Has any one had this problem and has anyone found a fix. Gary R.

Re: Debian license issue

2022-06-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-06-01 09:14, Lidiya Pecherskaya wrote: Hello, Is it possible to get information on the type of license under which the Debian software is available? Thanks in advance. Most of the packages are distributed under a free license - usually GPL or MIT but sometimes others. Packages under

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