Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Brian
On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 09:34:56 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:33 AM Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 20 Jan 2021 at 20:31:53 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > menuentry "debian-10-iso" { > > >

Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

2021-01-21 Thread Brian
t possible. David Wright's advice to use the hd-media kernel and initrd is your way forward. The simplest GRUB stanza possible is menuentry 'Debian 10' { linux /boot/vmlinuz initrd /boot/initrd.gz } -- Brian.

Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day

2021-01-19 Thread Brian
On Tue 19 Jan 2021 at 10:03:25 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 18 ian 21, 22:36:22, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 18 Jan 2021 at 23:23:56 +0100, deloptes wrote: > > > > > Long Wind wrote: > > > > > > > this is really ad

Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day

2021-01-18 Thread Brian
re is a good cheep HW for sale. We can all do it on -user? Anything goes? -- Brian. > > >

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread Brian
ge under you at the manufacturer's whim [1]. This > may have advantages and disadvantages, but you don't get to control > those :) In terms of control, the burnt-in firmware cannot cannot be controlled either. I do not know where this gets us. -- Brian.

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread Brian
ump through Google hoops. The Debian home page has "Download" as a prominent feature. It leads to an amd64 netinst iso. Why can it not link to some documentation (as above), and from there to what is available? Pragmatism goes a long way to easing the path to installing Debian. -- Brian.

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-16 Thread Brian
amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso That isn't the non-free, unofficial installer. -- Brian.

Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

2021-01-11 Thread Brian
pletely piffling! And not a typo. The sense of the comment is abundantly clear. -- Brian.

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-09 Thread Brian
On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 08:19:36 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 09 ian 21, 00:13:06, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 08 Jan 2021 at 16:46:53 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > > This is inappropriate on this list. Please take it elsewhere. Thank you. > > >

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-09 Thread Brian
-airscan author, but would not expect an immediate response. Another debugging idea if you want to narrow down whether simple-scan is the problem: scanimage d "airscan:e0:Canon LiDE 300 (USB)" --format=png > image.png Thanks for engaging. -- Brian.

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-09 Thread Brian
On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 13:22:30 +, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 08:07:37 AM EST, Brian > wrote: > > > On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 12:55:07 +, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > > Can you scan by choosing airscan, eSCL

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-09 Thread Brian
On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 12:55:07 +, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > >> On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 07:43:41 AM EST, Brian > wrote: > > On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 12:31:43 +, Dr. > Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > > >  On Saturday, January 9, 2021,

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-09 Thread Brian
On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 12:31:43 +, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 07:19:39 AM EST, Brian > wrote: > > > Install sane-airscan and give > > > > scanimage -L > $ scanimage -Ldevice `pixma:04A91913_47A8A4' is a CANON CanoS

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-09 Thread Brian
essary. See https://wiki.debian.org/Scanner > On Friday, January 8, 2021, 07:07:40 PM EST, Brian > wrote: > On Fri 08 Jan 2021 at 17:28:16 -0500, Jen Nussbaum wrote: > > >> When I run simple-scan, it detects the printer and announces itself > >> ready to go

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Jan 2021 at 16:46:53 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 20:10:05 + > Brian wrote: > > > > -- > > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.&qu

Re: simple-scan fails with Canon LiDE 300--except as root

2021-01-08 Thread Brian
ot understand why this should be so. Do both the previous commands work as root? > I'm bewildered by this--any idea what I should be looking at? Yes; there is a possible solution. Give what you get for lsusb -v | grep -A 3 bInterfaceClass.*7 and systemctl list-units "ipp-usb*" | grep service -- Brian.

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2021-01-08 Thread Brian
es in radicalising people? We see what that has led to in other parts of the world. -- Brian.

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-19 Thread Brian
and the attitude behind it is that > there's no need to be sorry if "someone else" is better than "us" at > some thing. Enjoy that and offer them whatever it is what you can do > better in exchange. Agreed. -- Brian.

Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd

2020-12-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Dec 2020 at 07:05:24 -0300, riveravaldez wrote: > On 12/12/20, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 11 Dec 2020 at 21:33:42 -0300, riveravaldez wrote: > > > >> Hi, I'm having an issue with a Brother HL-3150CDN printer on Debian > >> Testing. > > > > You

Re: exporting display like

2020-12-17 Thread Brian
and bring up its package description page. From there go to Developer Information. The reason why xpra is not in testing should be indicated there. -- Brian.

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-16 Thread Brian
why 'sudo' is recommended by task-desktop in the first place.) > > I can't answer that as I don't run any DE. Neither do I have a DE, but we all have access to the task-desktop changelog: tasksel (3.44) unstable; urgency=medium [ nicoo ] * Team upload. * Add myself as uploader. * task-desktop - Depend on libu2f-udev. (Closes: #891472) - Depend on sudo. (Closes: #773550) -- nicoo Wed, 23 May 2018 23:56:54 +0200 -- Brian.

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-15 Thread Brian
ompletely misinterpretated and ignored what Tixy said. You then go on to make something up and base an argument on it. Such is life! -- Brian.

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-15 Thread Brian
igured with > the user added to the sudo group regardless of if a root password is set. You are being obtuse. d-i does not install sudo unless it is requested. That's the only point at issue. It is the only thing that matters. Why Mate chooses to install sudo is a different issue. It does not invalidate > The Debian Installer will configure 'sudo' for the first > user only if you leave the root password blank. This is > explained during the install. What a particular package does has no bearing on the design of d-i's base system. -- Brian.

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Brian
y understanding too. > In the context of the text you were replying to it seemed to me you > might just be ironic (though admittedly I did also consider you might be > referring to the 'targetpw' option in 'sudoers'). Keith Bainbridge argument begins with a complete misunderstanding of the role of sudo in the installer. It then mentions an article that is not referenced. Two fails. -- Brian.

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Brian
user account. Hardly surprising, given what user-setup-udeb is designed to do. -- Brian.

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 13:15:41 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 01:03:55PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 12 Dec 2020 at 22:53:41 +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > > On 12/12/20 7:29 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > AND

Re: Emergency mode when root account locked

2020-12-12 Thread Brian
sudo being a security issue > on our systems. It appears to be default in debian 10, so most of us get > it as default. I looked at replacing sudo. sudo is set up by default by the installer? You're sure? -- Brian.

Re: Can't print: /var/spool/lpd

2020-12-12 Thread Brian
o el directorio > chgrp: no se puede acceder a '/var/spool/lpd/hl3150cdn': No existe el > fichero o el directorio > chmod: no se puede acceder a '/var/spool/lpd/hl3150cdn': No existe el > fichero o el directorio The installation of this package goes smoothly on my i386 machine. -- Brian.

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 17:31:46 +, Brian wrote: > The printer is found at TheLibrarian.local and its resource path is > printers/CP1215, giving a URI of > > ipp://TheLibrarian.local:631/printers/CP1215 > > At present you are relying on cups-browsed on the client to disc

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 11:29:28 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2020-12-09 10:25, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 10:04:14 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > > On 2020-12-08 13:29, Brian wrote: > > > > avahi-browse -art > log1 > > > -bash: av

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 10:04:14 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2020-12-08 13:29, Brian wrote: > > > >avahi-browse -art > log1 > > -bash: avahi-browse: command not found - for both regular user and root > > > on the server and post log here as an attachment.

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-08 Thread Brian
t get to know the printer's attributes? That can be done at present, even though printing does not take place. -- Brian.

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-08 Thread Brian
using the foomatic drivers. CUPS reports that it is 2.3.3op1 > on my workstation and 2.2.10 on my server. > // Executing avahi-browse -art > log2 on the client and sending log2 here could be useful. -- Brian.

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-06 Thread Brian
". > Meaning "no devices found". > http://easthope.ca/FailedBootVrtConsole4.jpg Please give what you get in an installer console for list-devices disk list-devices partition -- Brian.

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Dec 2020 at 08:07:30 +1100, David wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 07:54, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 06 Dec 2020 at 07:29:37 +1100, David wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 06:57, wrote: > > > > > > I give their md5sums below so you can check w

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread Brian
rstand this sentence. Do you mean you made a > human error? Or something else? The OP is using an i386 version. We expect you are on amd64. That's not the problem, of course. -- Brian.

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread Brian
On Sat 05 Dec 2020 at 11:19:17 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > http://easthope.ca/FailedBootVrtConsole4.jpg > > Apologies for the snapshot but it serves the purpose. It doesn't serve any purpose. It is completely useless. -- Brian.

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread Brian
think this would make "set root='(hd0,msdos1)'" superfluous. I wonder whether the other two directives are defaults for GRUB? -- Brian.

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-05 Thread Brian
drive, which I would guess is common place to put it. This avoids having to consider the memory situation or mess with the installation afterwards. Those users who cannot boot from a USB stick can have vmlinuz, initrd.gz and grub.cfg on the hard disk and the ISO on a USB stick, where it should fou

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-03 Thread Brian
scover and mount the ISO. BootFromISOinHD.jpg (provided by the OP) provides confirmation of this assertion. -- Brian.

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-03 Thread Brian
e current procedure is simple enough. Have you or anyone you > trust run the procedure with the specific three (iso, vmlinuz, > initrd.gz) files you cited? Yes. I trust me! -- Brian.

Re: Re (2): Installation instructions.

2020-12-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 02 Dec 2020 at 13:19:39 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Brian > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 18:51:38 + > > As David asks - where are vmlinuz and initrd.gz from? And what CD (?) > > image is being used? > > Answered in my reply to David here. > https://l

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-02 Thread Brian
anding of what you are doing. The vmlinuz and initrd.gz in the .iso will not enable you to boot using the hd-media technique. -- Brian

Re: Installation instructions.

2020-12-02 Thread Brian
to an inappropriate situation. > The instructions at the URL above appear incomplete. Does anyone > happen to know how the ISO should be accessed? Loop mount at > /dev/cdrom? The instructions are complete. Loop mount? No! -- Brian.

Re: Printer not Ready after Scan

2020-11-25 Thread Brian
s above. > root@deb4:~# /usr/sbin/cupsenable --release HP_LaserJet_3050 > lpadmin: The printer or class does not exist. No destination has been setup. See above. > The cups error log (/var/log/cups/error_log) has complaints about blank > Name, unable to encrypt, and no URI. These don't seem relevant to me. Missing URI? Nowhere for the job to go. -- Brian.

Re: An apt repository has changed its key

2020-11-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Nov 2020 at 14:56:46 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Do you think it is permitted for a debian install to point its apt-get at a > Ubuntu repository? It is permitted! You get to keep any broken bits, of course! -- Brian.

Re: Configuring my Epson L360 printer in Debian 10, gnome

2020-11-21 Thread Brian
On Sat 21 Nov 2020 at 13:36:32 -0800, Weaver wrote: > On 22-11-2020 06:55, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 21 Nov 2020 at 11:44:03 -0800, Weaver wrote: > > > >> On 22-11-2020 02:54, Brian wrote: > >> > On Fri 20 Nov 2020 at 23:03:45 -0800, Weaver wrote: >

Re: Configuring my Epson L360 printer in Debian 10, gnome

2020-11-21 Thread Brian
On Sat 21 Nov 2020 at 11:44:03 -0800, Weaver wrote: > On 22-11-2020 02:54, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 20 Nov 2020 at 23:03:45 -0800, Weaver wrote: > > > >> On 21-11-2020 16:11, Edgar Villanueva Jr wrote: > >> > I've tried to follow the instructions and recommend

Re: Configuring my Epson L360 printer in Debian 10, gnome

2020-11-21 Thread Brian
r contributed emtries are not always accurate. This one isn't. > And Epson doesn't appear to produce a driver for it. > > https://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-L360 > > https://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/ Is "doesn't" a typo? -- Brian.

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Nov 2020 at 17:22:33 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 07:43:02AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I've copied (using dd) the .iso of Debian 10's DVD1 to a USB flash drive. > > > > I have no problem doing a normal install. > > The problem occurs when attempting

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Brian
is on DVD-1. What's the problem? sources.list? Maybe. Whatever it is, he has been on this jag for long enough to sort it out. -- Brian.

Re: cups: Empty Basic password

2020-11-20 Thread Brian
printing technique? client.conf is deperecated. See client.conf(5) and https://lists.cups.org/pipermail/cups/2015-October/055525.html -- Brian.

Re: Encountered a bug with a dependency of wondershaper, but I'm unsure which dependency, and how to proceed with submitting a bug report

2020-11-18 Thread Brian
reportbug. -- Brian.

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-15 Thread Brian
he volume level before running vlc: amixer sset 'Master' 10% -- Brian.

Re: What's going on with snapd?

2020-10-27 Thread Brian Vaughan
On 10/27/2020 6:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: What release are you running (stable, testing, unstable, etc.)? The package in stable will only receive security updates. I'm running unstable. But if I've got the dates right, some of them were reported before Buster became stable. I suppose my

Re: Mounting a USB device

2020-10-27 Thread Brian
ut=1 0 0 The USB stick is mounted when it is accessed and unmounted after 5 seconds of non-use. Works brilliantly. -- Brian.

What's going on with snapd?

2020-10-26 Thread Brian Vaughan
Recently I wanted to try out an open source game that was being distributed as a snap package, so I tried installing snapd. It apparently installed successfully, and I could apparently install snap packages, but I couldn't execute them. Long story short, I eventually made my way to

Re: To enable TrueType fonts on uxterm by default

2020-10-19 Thread Brian
I just ask uxterm to use TrueType and let uxterm > > to decide which TrueType font to use? > > The other way around: add a default font and you don't have to > say anything else. > > xterm -fa 'Inconsolata' -fs 14 In my .Xresources I have: xterm*faceName: Inconsolata xterm*faceSize: 15 -- Brian.

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-04 Thread Brian
On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 14:59:18 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 04 Oct 2020 at 12:14:01 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > Just a silly shot in the dark: are you sure it isn't taking keyp

Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?

2020-10-04 Thread Brian
n allows for configuring xdm to show stars when the password is typed. -- Brian.

Re: Mail transfer agent (debian-user-digest Digest V2020 #932)

2020-10-01 Thread Brian
host name. > > Mail name ["syshostname"]: > > where syshostname is the output of hostname --fqdn. exim4 says: The 'mail name' is the domain name used to 'qualify' mail addresses without a domain name. Sending to brian or cc'ing or bcc'ing brian would go to b

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-28 Thread Brian
On Mon 28 Sep 2020 at 07:56:22 -0700, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28 2020 at 09:46:09 AM, "Stephen P. Molnar" > wrote: > > On 09/27/2020 01:35 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > >> Npthing to do with your issue, but what is your Brother model

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 13:09:02 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > On 09/27/2020 12:44 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 11:01:42 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > I followed your suggestion, extracted the deb and copied the files to > &

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Brian
lation. This may, for example, cause parts of the package to remain on the system, which will then be forgotten by dpkg. We could try removing the reinstall request status from the package with sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq brscan4 and then have a go at sudo dpkg -P brscan4 -- Brian.

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 11:01:42 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > On 09/27/2020 09:21 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 07:32:20 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/setupSaneScan4: not found > > >

Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

2020-09-27 Thread Brian
r tose files exist or not? ls -l /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/setupSaneScan4 ls -l /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/udev_config.sh If not, you can cheat by extracting them from the the deb package, putting them where they are looked for and then running apt purge brscan4 -- Brian.

Re: OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

2020-09-25 Thread Brian
free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 78605095 780 5971985 > 1958 > Swap: 156232426 13197 > Total:234847521 13977 > root@jhegaala:~# > > If swap is not enable

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Brian
tion. The default cupsd.conf has Listen localhost:631 A dd-wrt based router using packet filtering contributes nothing in this situation. -- Brian.

Re: Mail transfer agent

2020-09-24 Thread Brian
to the way you describe. It does the job very well and I just let it get on with it. I don't really understand what you mean by "overkill" and think you are fussing over nothing. -- Brian.

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-21 Thread Brian
On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 08:45:02 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 19 sep 20, 20:41:05, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 19 Sep 2020 at 14:12:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > Best to keep it as simple as possible. > > > > Keep to what we have? Glad you agre

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-19 Thread Brian
gt; I encounter a newbie, I recommend either KDE or one of the lightweight > > desktops, I'm a "never GNOMEr" > > In my experience (own as well as assisting other newcomers), users > coming from Windows or Mac will be surprised by the mere existence of > different options here. Indeed. > Best to keep it as simple as possible. Keep to what we have? Glad you agree. -- Brian.

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-18 Thread Brian
On Fri 18 Sep 2020 at 07:32:46 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:42:59PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > The function of the menu is crystal clear. > > > > Activating as it as presented a user gets the ticked option. > > > > Unticking

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-18 Thread Brian
with any of the DEs? For task-mate-desktop: Depends: tasksel (= 3.53), task-desktop, mate-desktop-environment, lightdm It is not possible to install only X. I hope this helps in the exploration of the task selection menu and the search for leanness. -- Brian.

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 16:07:56 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, September 17, 2020 02:58:19 PM Brian wrote: > > On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 09:29:35 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > > On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > On 09/15/202

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 22:36:31 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 17.09.20 20:58, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 09:29:35 +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > > > > On 16.09.20 10:54, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > On 09/15/2020 06:50 PM, David Wright wrote:

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-17 Thread Brian
e that both of you are incapable of explaining and defending even after the situation has been explained to you? -- Brian

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-16 Thread Brian
s, installlng task-desktop. This proposal completely alters the meaning of the present text and works against the purpose of this portion the menu. > > 3. add a default check by GNOME. Suggested and countered in a number of previous posts. > +1 -- that seems much clearer to me It would be useful to know what needs clarifying. -- Brian.

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Sep 2020 at 21:23:20 +0200, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Mon 14 Sep 2020 at 08:12:50 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > The Debian desktop environment installs task-desktop. This package > > recommends desktop task packages. task-

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-14 Thread Brian
away. > Let users select GNOME or KDE or whatever they actually want. Suppose a user installs with base-installer/install-recommends set to false. With the Debian desktop environment being the only option ticked, a user would not install task-gnome-desktop but would get xorg and enough software to use X. The suggested scheme would not cater for this. -- Brian.

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 13:47:04 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 19:19:50 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > > On 2020-09-12 18:42, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 11:49:18 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > > On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: > &g

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 19:19:50 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-09-12 18:42, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 11:49:18 +0100, mick crane wrote: > > > > > On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: > > > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wr

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 11:49:18 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2020-09-12 10:53, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:33:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Vi, 11 sep 20, 22:47:06, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > > > > > > > > I've als

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-12 Thread Brian
t debian-installer (or > tasksel?). > > Providing a patch increases the chances of having the change accepted. What is the purpose of "(default)" as part of the Gnome entry? -- Brian.

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Brian
specified. It could, of course, be anything. Maybe the user does not want this particular distribution's default. I do not think this is nit-picking. I do not agree with Marco Möller that the first line is redundant, but, if it specified that the Debian desktop environment was Xfce, it is possible it would give some clarity. OTOH, if it was decided not to have a default desktop, the first line could go. -- Brian.

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-09 Thread Brian
erring to package maintainers declaring Depends on other > packages where it should be just a Recommends, do note it is often a > side effect of users disabling automatic installation of Recommends and > then complaining about missing functionality. I believe the OP is referring to debootstrap's inability to install only Depends:. -- Brian.

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-09 Thread Brian
the swiss-army penknife, busybox. Perhaps just be > patient and let the d-i "close". The OP is experienced with preseeding and is aware of late_command. All he has to do is apply his knowledge. -- Brian.

Re: passwords + bad memory - Was (Re: how to test disk for bad sector)

2020-09-03 Thread Brian
clear ok, but encrypted in a file is not? I do not have any trivial passwords; all are important. Copy and paste may be dispensed with. -- Brian.

Re: passwords + bad memory - Was (Re: how to test disk for bad sector)

2020-09-02 Thread Brian
A password is required for decrypting passwords.enc. *M05o05m19m19a? would do nicely. Just a single password to remember. It couldn't get simpler. -- Brian.

Re: question regarding no space left on device message

2020-08-21 Thread Brian
ection 4.4.3 of the Release Notes helps? -- Brian.

Re: AppArmor or Telepathy error

2020-08-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Aug 2020 at 08:11:12 -0700, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Henning Follmann writes: > > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 12:48:19PM +0100, Brian wrote: > >> On Fri 07 Aug 2020 at 07:32:12 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> > >> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 a

Re: AppArmor or Telepathy error

2020-08-07 Thread Brian
eport this. Is the apparmor the right place to report? > > The right place would be whichever package contains the AppArmor > profile. I'm guessing that's some package with "telepathy" in its > name. A very useful page to read is https://wiki.debian.org/AppArmor/Reportbug -- Brian.

Re: how to quickly recover buster boot loader

2020-08-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Aug 2020 at 15:14:33 +, Andrew Cater wrote: > Boot from Debian install media. Use rescue mode. Mount Debian partition > when prompted. Run os-prober and update-grub then exit. Machine should > reboot into Debian. No need to run os-prober; update-grub does it. -- Brian.

Re: Tomas has a signature which isn't a .sig

2020-07-31 Thread Brian
last sign-off reply, I wasn't sure you were > even reading the remainder of the thread. I'd fallen asleep, in spite of reading every post. -- Brian.

Re: Tomas has a signature which isn't a .sig

2020-07-31 Thread Brian
her character in the first two columns? > > Thanks for the list. I didn't expect that this humble thing would > set off such a monster thread :-) You've not been in these parts for very long, have you? -user has a habit of generating discussion on trivilities like these. :) -- Brian.

Re: grub update and reinstallation

2020-07-31 Thread Brian
on any particular installation location. Why should it? -- Brian.

Re: Epson WF-C5290 printer - connection issues.

2020-07-30 Thread Brian
On Thu 30 Jul 2020 at 04:42:17 -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 30-07-2020 21:05, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 29 Jul 2020 at 20:02:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: > > > >> But now ipp-usb advises `Printer Added'. > > > > ipp-usb? You've lost me. You are on stabl

Re: Epson WF-C5290 printer - connection issues.

2020-07-30 Thread Brian
On Wed 29 Jul 2020 at 20:02:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: > But now ipp-usb advises `Printer Added'. ipp-usb? You've lost me. You are on stable, aren't you? -- Brian.

Re: Epson WF-C5290 printer - connection issues.

2020-07-30 Thread Brian
t; Epson-WF-C5290-52 root 1024 Tue 28 Jul 2020 > 21:51:53 > > So, it looks like a driver problem, still. Maybe. But you don't need any drivers! https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting -- Brian.

Re: SANE default scanner

2020-07-29 Thread Brian
t than > > forking, and more convenient. > > I'd just ask them. I.e. explicit is better than implicit. > > If you need a second pair of eyes to look over your patch, I'm ready. I > can read C. Reviewing a patch for a non-extisting bug? That's above and beyond the call of duty :). -- Brian.

Re: Epson WF-C5290 printer - connection issues.

2020-07-29 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Jul 2020 at 20:05:56 -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 29-07-2020 09:07, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 28 Jul 2020 at 13:17:33 -0700, Weaver wrote: > > > >> Ippfind delivers on nothing, also. > > > > How about 'ippfind -T 5'? > > Nothing! &

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