Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ?

2024-05-28 Thread The Wanderer
ng that dpkg command very often, but I do remember seeing that string often enough in the past, so there are probably other commands which will also report it if applicable. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the

Re: Security hole in kernel fixed?

2024-05-15 Thread The Wanderer
therefore suspect that any 6.5.x kernel probably was not affected by this vulnerability to begin with. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Re: large complaint / very urgent

2024-04-29 Thread The Wanderer
ebian testing, by comparison, appears to still have 115.8; possibly Kali may be based on testing?) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Marking as spam

2024-04-18 Thread The Wanderer
other hand, if my understanding is *not* correct, then none of that applies. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Sorry

2024-04-18 Thread The Wanderer
ou received through the list, and is addressed to the list. It would therefore seem as if editing out the "*SPAM*" marker from your replies before you send them would result in the replies showing up on the mailing list without that marker. -- The Wanderer The reasonable ma

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-04-16 at 16:56, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/16/24 10:46, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> In his original message, he claimed that closing one window >>> makes the other one also close. >>> >>>

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread The Wanderer
n't open a new window with just that tab, but rather opens an entire new main Thunderbird window with the contents of that tab active). That in turn can (I would expect) be done accidentally by trying to drag a tab to a new position in the tab bar, but unintentionally dropping it at a place whi

Re: Testing amd64 netinst LUKS+LVM install broken

2024-04-10 Thread The Wanderer
in order to be completely sure of not having any commits that come from that bad actor. (If there's a detail I've missed catching which would mean that any of that is inaccurate, I would be pleased if someone would point it out to me.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to t

Re: Dependency meaning

2024-03-21 Thread The Wanderer
t one doesn't include the '0' dependencies. Based on the fact that those dependencies are listed for the 't64' version of the package, my guess is that '0' is 'Conflicts:'. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the wor

Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

2024-03-17 Thread The Wanderer
that hasn't been helpful to me. The numbers also don't have any intuitive correlation with the names, so mapping from one to another requires looking them up in some appropriate document, which is inconvenient enough that in practice it mostly won't be done. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man ad

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-02-27 at 14:09, Gary Dale wrote: > 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. >>> >>>

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread The Wanderer
ectory - but not necessarily editing the files there, except via 'crontab -e' as you have already done. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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

2024-02-24 Thread The Wanderer
The etymology certainly *should* matter, insofar as that is the origin of the *meaning* of the word(s). -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Journald's qualities

2024-02-23 Thread The Wanderer
unctions (paired with, and updated alongside, the internal writer functions) and be done with it. * No need to worry about handling log entries that *contain* commas, or whatever other element was chosen as the separator. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unrea

Re: "I: update-initramfs is disabled (live system is running on read-only media)" ...

2024-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
*starting point* to figure out what the correct thing to do in your circumstance actually is. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -

Re: Package Identification Assistance

2024-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
provided. To start with, I'd want to know: what steps is it which cause the window which displays this improperly-titled tab to open? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-02-15 at 01:18, songbird wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> TL;DR: It worked! I'm back up and running, with what appears to be >> all my data safely recovered from the failing storage stack! > > i'm glad you got it back up and running and i hope all your data is

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-15 Thread The Wanderer
k on, that *it was already powered on and the system was still booted*. Surprisingly, none of the hardware showed any sign of damage, and the system recognized the RAM just fine after a reboot. But it was a bit of a jolt at the time to realize that I'd just done parts surgery, however mild, o

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-02-15 at 03:09, David Christensen wrote: > On 2/14/24 18:54, The Wanderer wrote: > >> TL;DR: It worked! I'm back up and running, with what appears to be >> all my data safely recovered from the failing storage stack! > > That is good to hear. :-) >

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-02-15 at 07:14, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> It turns out that there is a hard limit of 65000 hardlinks per >> on-disk file; > > That's a filesystem dependent value. That's the value for ext4. I think I recall reading that w

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-14 Thread The Wanderer
TL;DR: It worked! I'm back up and running, with what appears to be all my data safely recovered from the failing storage stack! On 2024-01-09 at 14:22, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-01-09 at 14:01, Michael Kjörling wrote: > >> On 9 Jan 2024 13:25 -0500, from wande...

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
t hang, or give errors, or...? My thought is that this will give information about the filesystem object that is the root directory, without trying to also access information about the *contents* of that directory. If the one succeeds where the other fails, that might help narrow down where the ac

Re: apt full-upgrade failed at marco-common package

2024-01-30 Thread The Wanderer
and then after that - if I really wanted gnome-themes-more - try to reinstall it (preferably using an updated package, if you can get your hands on one). I suspect that files have been moved between packages since that version was released, and (some of) the files which were previously in gnome

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

2024-01-17 Thread The Wanderer
D. > > If that is so, what is the purpose of useless directory entries? My guess is: so that they can get the data directly in a variable by a call to stat() or similar, rather than having to read and parse (and validate against possible malicious replacement) the contents of a file. I w

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-01-09 at 14:01, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 9 Jan 2024 13:25 -0500, from wande...@fastmail.fm (The Wanderer): > >>>> Within the past few weeks, I got root-mail notifications from >>>> smartd that the ATA error count on two of the drives had >>>&

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-01-09 at 11:21, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 9 Jan 2024 08:11 -0500, from wande...@fastmail.fm (The Wanderer): > >> Within the past few weeks, I got root-mail notifications from >> smartd that the ATA error count on two of the drives had increased >> - one from 0

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-01-09 at 11:12, Curt wrote: > On 2024-01-09, The Wanderer wrote: > >> My default plan is to identify an appropriate model and buy a pair >> of replacement drives, but not install them yet; buy another two >> drives every six months, until I have a full repla

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-01-09 at 09:38, Dan Ritter wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> So... as the Subject asks, should I be worried? How do I interpret >> these results, and at what point do they start to reflect something >> to take action over? If there is not reason to be worried, w

SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
center storage drives, which are likely to be more expensive. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw Model Family:

VAX emulation/simulation (was Re: systemd-timesyncd)

2024-01-07 Thread The Wanderer
ho used to use LSI-11's :-D $ apt-cache show simh Package: simh [...] Description-en: Emulators for 33 different computers This is the SIMH set of emulators for 33 different computers: [...] DEC VAX (but cannot include the microcode due to copyright) No idea whether it'd be enough, but if anyone does

Re: kbrequest as in older /etc/inittab

2024-01-05 Thread The Wanderer
accomplish some other end - if the "what" of this goal is also the "how" of some other goal - then in order to give useful answers, we will need to also know at least the "what" of that other goal, and possibly also its "why". (And, yes, that *can* apply r

Heinlein and requirements (was Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?)

2023-12-26 Thread The Wanderer
lem, pitch manure, program a >>> computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. >>> Specialization is for insects. I can probably do... somewhere in the range from four to ten of those, depending on one's definitions. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts him

Re: wireless broadband providers exist

2023-12-20 Thread The Wanderer
ble that even if wireless "high-speed" Internet access could in a technical sense work in that area it might be prohibited in a contractual sense. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. T

Re: how to firefox settings

2023-12-06 Thread The Wanderer
ly do it AFAIK, short of (as you say) modifying the source and recompiling. I don't have the link for the policy-templates site handy, but it should be easily findable by searching for those terms. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persi

Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

2023-11-13 Thread The Wanderer
d" > users that use good MUA. > > And those are getting rare, I can't find a nice MUA for Android with > proper threading. If you ever do find one, please let me know. The lack of such a thing is the primary reason why I don't do E-mail on Android *at all*. -- The Wan

Re: PATH question

2023-11-11 Thread The Wanderer
warrants a wishlist-level bug report". Then I went looking, and I found a *normal*-level bug report that seems to cover the matter: https://bugs.debian.org/874763 And that bug report is from 2017, and has no replies. Unless someone is interested enough to write up a patch for apt.8 and se

Re: locate question

2023-11-07 Thread The Wanderer
am I doing wrong? For locate, you're not quoting the arguments properly. For find, you're also putting the arguments in the wrong order. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progr

Re: How to get VMware Player going on Debian 12 bookworm

2023-11-06 Thread The Wanderer
ream releases its code under does not permit taking changes out separately like that". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -

Re: Changing host name and domain name on Debian; was: Domain nametouse on home networks

2023-10-31 Thread The Wanderer
ecause it's trying to recover via an E-mail address I no longer have access to.". The question of in what sense the account has the "same name" is undetermined, but the existence of such an additional constraint is the only way I can see to parse the given scenario so that it

Re: Which Virtual Manager? Was: EASY way to install packages from trixie/sid to stable?

2023-10-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-10-28 at 00:25, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 28/10/2023 02:02, The Wanderer wrote: > >> for the case of hierarchical snapshots > > qemu-img(1) allows to create snapshots of disk images that are stored > in the same file. In addition the "create" command has

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

2023-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
initscripts' package. My guess is that a machine running systemd will not include that package, and therefore will not have this script. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress d

Re: Which Virtual Manager? Was: EASY way to install packages from trixie/sid to stable?

2023-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
nd share some > screenshots later today. Regardless of the above, that might be useful. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Which Virtual Manager? Was: EASY way to install packages from trixie/sid to stable?

2023-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
graphical management thereof, among other things - and have things more-or-less Just Work, I would *love* to learn about it. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progres

Re: Date time problem bookworm, fvwm....

2023-10-22 Thread The Wanderer
s like something I might like to try when that changes; any chance of sharing the specific details? > But I'm weird. I literally used to go by "Weird" as a nickname, though (sadly?) it never became as commonly used as with Al. Weird doesn't bother me at all. -- The Wanderer The re

Re: Strange Monitor Behavior

2023-10-16 Thread The Wanderer
ribing the same "fuzzy"/"blurry" thing I was trying to describe. > In more than 99 of 100 tries it just wakes up ok, though. Same. > It seems not to be related to the computers to which it has been > attached since i got it. I only use the monitor with one single compu

Re: Strange Monitor Behavior

2023-10-16 Thread The Wanderer
an't provide the exact model for my own case either, although I can state that both candidates are Dell units.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unre

Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?

2023-10-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-10-02 at 09:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 09:43:39AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2023-10-02 at 09:28, Ottavio Caruso wrote: >> >>> Yeah, the one for which I had to manually use "dpkg -i". >> >> That i

Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?

2023-10-02 Thread The Wanderer
to identify the set of packages you're interested in, short of a combination of manual archaeology in local log files (and the local apt package cache) and relying on your own memory. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying t

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-10-01 at 17:39, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2023-10-01 at 15:36, Hans wrote: > >> Hi the Wanderer, >>> (If you're unlucky, there may not *be* any such driver for that >>> model, or at least not one you can get your hands on. In which >>> case, b

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-10-01 at 15:36, Hans wrote: > Hi the Wanderer, >>> Second: The setting of AHCI has disappeared, so I can not change >>> the settings in BIOS. And: the BIOS can not be reflashed! >> >> Please describe exactly what you have done to try to downgrade the

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
at a distance. (If you're unlucky, there may not *be* any such driver for that model, or at least not one you can get your hands on. In which case, barring the downgrade-the-firmware angle, you'd probably be out of luck.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreas

Re: CVE-2023-5217 unimportant for firefox?

2023-09-30 Thread The Wanderer
rting in bookworm and above. For older releases still >> needs the fixes in src:firefox-esr and src:thunderbird. [3] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-5217 -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

2023-09-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-09-28 at 05:16, Valerio Vanni wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:14:57 -0400 The Wanderer > wrote: >>> But this way I would have to disable secure boot to load old Clonezilla. >>> Disable secure boot, launch clonezilla, restore image, reenable secure >>>

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

2023-09-27 Thread The Wanderer
me along very often, especially not in system-imaging solutions. The latter would be understandable, but you'd have the choice between doing that discard-all-the-old thing, or living with the downsides of disabling Secure Boot. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the

Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

2023-09-20 Thread The Wanderer
her things, you'd need to specify the accessing program, etc., in a way that is doable but not necessarily obvious.) That said, you'd be taking a gamble that your ability to obfuscate such things is better than Google's ability to detect it. Who would you prefer to bet on in a competition like

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
a systemd environment, but I just offhand wouldn't particularly expect there to be. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Sleep: out of control

2023-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
g that the component which handles those settings is going to run at all, that is. As has been suggested, masking / etc. the appropriate service would probably prevent that.) Tom, does your version of that file not include a comment with that same information? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man

Re: debian image questions

2023-08-03 Thread The Wanderer
If you then make that disk-image file pivot into the equivalent of an initrd, so that it's free to repartition the hard drive even if that means wiping it, then it should be entirely possible to get into the same installer environment as you could get to with bootable install media. Whether doing that

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
he "Blue checkmark" release. And this is fairly typical; the least typical of those is the last, which is actually in recognizable English, and references something that I actually recognize. I have no information about the background to this, at all. -- The Wanderer The reasonable m

Re: Bluetooth driver error on boot after upgrade to bookworm

2023-06-16 Thread The Wanderer
hen presumably this approach has already been tried. (In my case, I'm fairly sure I haven't rebooted since the release, but I was also tracking testing right up to the release so I'm already running the same kernel etc. that you mentioned.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself t

Re: Strange message

2023-06-15 Thread The Wanderer
names; my guess would be that it is, but I don't know how to go about identifying any such package that may be available.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-06-12 at 18:55, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 11 Jun 2023 at 19:18:15 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2023-06-11 at 17:36, David Wright wrote: >>> There are several sources: > > [ snipped the back and forth ] > > I'm sorry, but I just can't take se

Re: RAM

2023-06-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-06-12 at 17:47, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/6/23 04:52, The Wanderer wrote: >> I have to apologize; I completely misremembered the name of the program >> that I was referencing, probably because of the filenames I store its >> output under. hwinfo is absolutely not it.

Re: RAM

2023-06-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-06-12 at 16:45, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/6/23 04:30, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2023-06-12 at 16:06, Mick Ab wrote: >> >>> I wish to obtain information about the RAM installed on my PC using the >>> command line. The information needed is :-

Re: RAM

2023-06-12 Thread The Wanderer
t;clock", which is the "speed of RAM" you asked for. Another is "description", which at least in my case specifies (as part of what appears to be a freeform string) that the DIMMs I'm looking at are DDR4. I don't see that information specified anywhere else in the listing. --

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-06-11 at 17:36, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 11 Jun 2023 at 09:32:04 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2023-06-11 at 09:05, David Wright wrote: >>> It would seem very simple, the first time this happens, to >>> configure this in APT. I typed man apt-

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-06-11 at 09:34, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 09:20:41AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2023-06-11 at 09:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> Using "stable" in your sources.list is idiotic, and you should >>> not do it. Ever. >

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-06-11 at 09:05, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 11 Jun 2023 at 08:12:49 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2023-06-11 at 07:50, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >>> If you track "testing" (something which has been deprecated for >>> a while) >> >

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-06-11 at 09:02, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 08:12:49AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> The same thing applies to those who track 'stable' by that name. >> Using the symbolic names for the releases, rather than the actual >> codenames, *i

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread The Wanderer
make it possible to avoid those manual steps, and in fact it used to do just that, but it no longer does. As songbird said: it should all "just work". I'm actually startled that, judging from the fact that your responses have been centered on explaining the use of Debian codenames, you

Re: "dpkg-reconfigure" dash no longer works

2023-06-09 Thread The Wanderer
ers actually give one, neither do the rest of us - but in the absence of one, it's hard to be sure that pointing the symlink to /bin/bash won't break something. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himsel

Re: Firefox resource utilization (was Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

2023-06-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-06-03 at 07:18, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 03/06/2023 17:40, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Hey, now. I once had a Firefox session (with "restore tabs from >> previous session" enabled, and about six-to-eight windows) with >> 5,190 open tabs, and that computer

Firefox resource utilization (was Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

2023-06-03 Thread The Wanderer
e it criticized for the faults it actually has. Resource-intensive it may be, but unless extra windows increase resource usage far more than extra tabs do, you don't need anything *close* to 128GB for ~1700 Firefox tabs in ~128 Firefox windows. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself

Re: Stable and testing together?

2023-05-13 Thread The Wanderer
t so far, this has been the course of fewest overall problems for me, for quite a number of years now. I don't think I'd choose to run a "daily driver" Debian system against anything else. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread The Wanderer
single command line, and B: one of the packages which this would try to remove (probably fairly early on, since they'd be listed in alphabetical order) would be the 'apt' package itself, which contains both 'apt-mark' and 'apt-get', and so the process would probably break after that. It's a pointl

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread The Wanderer
plete the filename from before the first underscore, but that depends on how your system is set up.) dpkg should, I think, have fewer dependencies on directory structure (et cetera) than anything APT-based will have. It still might not be few *enough*, but it's worth a shot. -- The Wanderer

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread The Wanderer
that, you'd have to reinstall those packages as well. Given that one of the directories on my own system is /var/log/apt/, it's not impossible that much of the package-management system may not work (fully) correctly until you've identified and reinstalled the correct packages. -- Th

Re: sudo and echo

2023-04-28 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-04-28 at 20:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 08:00:02PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I would suspect that >> >> $ sudo 'echo 123 > /root/123.txt' >> >> would produce the effect you're after, but as I don't have sudo

Re: sudo and echo

2023-04-28 Thread The Wanderer
into /root/123.txt. If the current shell process does not have permission to write to that location, then you will get that error. I would suspect that $ sudo 'echo 123 > /root/123.txt' would produce the effect you're after, but as I don't have sudo installed, cannot verify that myself. --

Re: MariaDB Server is not installing on Debian 12

2023-04-21 Thread The Wanderer
n offhand why that process wouldn't be expected to need to be stopped in just the same way as those running under other user IDs. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread The Wanderer
ore is worth observing more closely. I seem to remember having seen suggestions that some regimes might even prohibit the use of HTTPS entirely, so as to ensure that they can spy on their subjects' connections, and that such a prohibition would be less practical for them to impose if everything requir

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-04-14 at 19:17, Brian wrote: > On Fri 14 Apr 2023 at 19:06:08 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2023-04-14 at 18:52, Brian wrote: >>> The EPSON ET M 1120 doesn't exist. Do we have to guess its >>> correct name as well as any other relevant infor

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-04-14 at 18:52, Brian wrote: > On Fri 14 Apr 2023 at 18:22:09 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2023-04-14 at 18:10, Brian wrote: >> > You could consider: >> > >> > * Stating the Debain OS being used. >> > * Giving the printer mak

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-14 Thread The Wanderer
t line before sending. (This question, and its replies, are appearing as responses to a mail from Michael Stone in the 'update-initramfs' thread.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. The

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread The Wanderer
OP "okay[s] a proposal for an update" *so* rarely that there was actually still one pending from when stretch was still getting support. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: update-initramfs

2023-04-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-04-12 at 07:44, Michel Verdier wrote: > Le 12 avril 2023 The Wanderer a écrit : > >> Without anything more, wouldn't that just result in an extra >> GRUB-menu entry pointing to the same copy of the kernel/etc.? > > Of course he can change menuentry to point t

Re: update-initramfs

2023-04-12 Thread The Wanderer
inting to it, so that if something blows away or otherwise messes up the original the duplicate is still around to serve as a fallback. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore

Re: Mailing list usage questions

2023-04-11 Thread The Wanderer
er mailing lists to which you are subscribed do come back to you), then there's probably a different problem and it would be warranted to dig deeper. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore

Re: should CLI have a nice UI today?

2023-03-29 Thread The Wanderer
it only becomes practical with a technology that's only become available relatively recently, but unless e.g. the recent forays into "AI" represent such a thing, I'm not sure what candidates for such a thing there might be. (And even those "AI"s are interacting with people through te

Re: How do I specify a custom apt dependency between kernel image and its headers?

2023-03-27 Thread The Wanderer
package at the same time. That's a workaround, though, and doesn't actually do quite exactly what you asked for. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends

Re: package name just before power off

2023-03-23 Thread The Wanderer
om there. It will probably be relevant what kernel you're running. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: Microcode bug problem?

2023-03-19 Thread The Wanderer
on of what might be considered "generation 0", prior to the "Core i" series of CPU product names, and was released in 2007. According to that same page, Skylake was generation 6, and was released in 2015. According to that same page, Coffee Lake was part of generations 8 and

Re: mount new block deivce in existing dir

2023-03-05 Thread The Wanderer
it should be possible and safe to log back in as an ordinary user and have things work correctly. Caveat emptor; this is not a terribly esoteric operation, but if it is not carried out quite correctly, it is not one entirely without risk. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to

Re: solution to / full

2023-03-01 Thread The Wanderer
tems, so you'll still just be looking at what's on / ; '--max=1' means it'll report one directory level deep from the items you specified on the command line ('--max=0' is equivalent to '-s'). You might even find benefit from repeating that same command with /usr, or with any other directory that specif

Re: Remove route '169.254.0.0/16 dev ovs-system'

2023-02-20 Thread The Wanderer
ght see whether you have any packages installed that match "ovs", "ovn", "openvswitch", or similar, and if so either remove them (if you don't need them) or investigate the configuration settings they may offer. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts him

Re: versions comparison

2023-02-17 Thread The Wanderer
ld version was date-based (20230217, for a version referencing today's date) and the new one uses more traditional version semantics (1.0.0, or the like). -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore a

Re: ps and AIX field descriptors

2023-02-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-02-17 at 15:21, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 01:49:59PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I can't speak to the new version, as I'm still running 3.3.17-7.1 on my >> machine - but I can at least note that the man page from that older >> version also

Re: ps and AIX field descriptors

2023-02-17 Thread The Wanderer
ration of this functionality in a potential future version. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Partitioning an SSD?

2023-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-02-16 at 08:10, Nicolas George wrote: > The Wanderer (12023-02-16): > >> filesystems et cetera aligned to physical blocks, because physical block >> size defines the minimum size that can be erased (and, therefore, >> overwritten) in any given operation, > &

Re: Partitioning an SSD?

2023-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
t erase-block sizes when dealing with SSDs et cetera, I hope it's understandable that I'd want to get things clarified. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the

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