Re: diff files

On 2025-10-02, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 04:27:47PM -0000, Greg wrote: >>On 2025-10-02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>* Somewhat OT, but for the sake of something (completeness) I'd like to >>> also mention word diffs

Re: diff files

On 2025-10-02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >* Somewhat OT, but for the sake of something (completeness) I'd like to > also mention word diffs which (1) are often more useful for human readers of > text (as opposed to programs), as (2) they show (or try to show) differences > by > individua

Re: diff files

old lines preceded by "-", and new lines preceded by "+". So, those are the three basic diff formats. Now, how does patch work? Let's save the unified diff into a file, and copy the original file and the diff to a new working directory: hobbit:~$ diff -u foo.bak foo &

Re: LibreOffice Writer "Missing hyphenation data"

On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 08:40:19 +, Ceppo wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 08:51:12AM +0930, Christian Gelinek wrote: > > I'm using Debian 12 XFCE and when I first open LibreOffice Writer, it > > shows the following message: > > > > Missing hyphenation data - Please install the hyphenation pac

Re: BINGO - was [Re: Identifying CPU and current OS]

On 2025-10-01, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I now formally ask: > How do I determine the register size of its CPU (its architecture)? What's the make and model of the machine? Have you opened it up and looked at the CPU (label/part number). Just remember the word size might not fit the bus width pr

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On 2025-09-30, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 04:08:56PM -0000, Greg wrote: >> In computing, a word is any processor design's natural unit of data. A word >> is >> a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware >>

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On 2025-09-28, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I may resurrect an former desktop machine as a trouble shooting aid. >> I need to know the data bus width. >> >> I know the Debian version number is stored in /etc/debian_version . >> >> How do I find if

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 10:01:05 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > # lscpu | grep mode > CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit I'm guessing THIS is what the OP really wanted. The rest is noise. (This use of this command new to me; I've never seen that particular data point before.)

Re: Identifying CPU and current OS

On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 08:23:28 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > At Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:00:11 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > > How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit? > > uname -a > > This will tell you the kernel version, including the bus width > (Note: it is possible to install a 32-b

Re: Debian weather bug

On 2025-09-27, wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 01:56:43PM -, Greg wrote: >> On 2025-09-27, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> > 404 Not Found >> I've gotten a 404 when having network problems [...] > > Are you sure? No, as it's a response from

Re: Debian weather bug

On 2025-09-27, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > 404 Not Foundm I've gotten a 404 when having network problems, so there can be a certain ambiguity. > 410 Gone That's clear as a bell.

Re: Debian weather bug

tempting to remove it > >Oct 19 18:23:55 debian clock-applet[3927]: Failed to get METAR data: 404 > > Not Found. > > > > Note that two different applications are affected by this bug. > > The latest upgrade of the packages libmateweather-common and > libmateweathe

Re: /.cache directory

On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 20:04:22 +0300, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > Since nobody else is seeing one of these directories on their systems, > > or at least nobody is *reporting* one, my guess is it was created by > > something Avinash did, w

Re: Gnome simple-scan and Flatpak

On 2025-09-24, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:19:54 -0400 > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM Tom Browder >> wrote: >> > >> > In order to download and compile simple-scan, it seems I need to >> > install the Flatpak development environment. Is that going to cause

Re: /.cache directory

On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 08:16:23 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > It's probably worth noting, too, that the `login` program (from util-linux) > will use / as a home directory if it _can't_ change to $HOME. It will, > however, print a message letting the user know this is the case: > https://sources.deb

Re: /.cache directory

On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 10:53:33 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Avinash Sonawane wrote on 25/09/2025 17:59: > > I'm using Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) which I recently installed. I > > noticed that there is a directory named ".cache" at root level. It > > seems to be created at the time of insta

Re: /.cache directory

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 17:23:18 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 09:29:32PM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > > I noticed that there is a directory named ".cache" at root level. It > > seems to be created at the time of installation. What is it? > > It's one of the XDG s

Re: Help with my question, please.

On 2025-09-21, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I hesitate to post in this absolute car-crash pointless thread, but with > this it's going even further off the rails. Brevity is the soul of wit. TL;DR.

Re: Combine PDF files

On 2025-09-21, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I used to use xsane almost exclusively for scanning to PDF, but it >> only does single pages. > > It doesn't. In the window where you can click to "Scan", at the > top-right under the menu you have a button that says "Save". > If you click on it, you'll see

Re: Combine PDF files

On 2025-09-20, Tom Browder wrote: > > I have a new HP all-in-one printer I can use to scan to PDF. Unfortunately > I haven't found any Debian app that can produce multiplle-page PDF scans. > The only app I have any scanning success with is XSane (its docs are not > good, nor is its > user interfa

Re: apt config options to specify the CA of the https repository?

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 15:13:28 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > There was a similar topic to this a while back and I do not believe APT > supports HTTPS only HTTP and FTP. APT supports HTTPS and HTTP. Many years ago, HTTPS support was new, and required a separate package. This is no longer

Re: Systemd: how to add a service to rescue.target

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 16:51:32 +, stefano prina wrote: >Hello, >So he have to : >1. edit the Daemon unit file >2. systemctl daemon-reload >3. run systemctl enable again >Am I right? Don't edit the unit file. Create a drop-in override file instead. The "systemctl

[Sid] broadcom-sta-dkms build problem

Hi there, I'm trying to install broadcom-sta-dkms on Sid. Unfortunately: apt-install broadcom-sta-dkms Installing: broadcom-sta-dkms . make -j24 KERNELRELEASE=6.16.7+deb14-amd64 KVER=6.16.7+deb14-amd64 Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.16.7+deb14-amd64 (x86_64) Consu

Re: Help with my question, please.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 13:19:52 -0400, COMCAST wrote: > Still I've have to ask again... 192.168.*.* is a private network address. This is one of YOUR machines. We have no idea what machine this is or what its usernames and passwords are. We don't even know what client you're running "ssh" from,

Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 15:55:03 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2025-09-18 09:01:45 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 14:07:20 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Such failures occur because the disk is not available yet. > > > Isn't there

Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

On 2025-09-18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > and other "kernel NULL pointer dereference" errors in nouveau. I'm glad you trimmed that output down to the essential.

Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 14:07:20 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2025-09-18 13:18:38 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2025-09-17 10:31:24 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > - reboot using that "slim" initrd.img. > > > > I've tried that, but the kernel crashes. The journalctl output shows >

Re: Tripple boot Debian 12, Debian 13, openSUSE EFI

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 19:45:18 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Isn't the os-prober disabled nowadays? I think that would explain why > other Linux installations are not being found. It's disabled by default. If you need to use it, you are instructed to edit a config file to enable it. https://w

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 13:33:09 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > In > https://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/release-notes.en.txt > it says > "Please note that using apt-get is not recommended for the upgrade >from etch to lenny. If you do not have aptitude installed you are >recomm

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On 2025-09-15, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> >> The release notes say when upgrading from Bookworm to Trixie to perform: >> >> apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs >> >> followed by: >> >> apt full-upgrade >> >> Of course, all this after having pointed your sources list to Trixie and >> updating the

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 09:09:56 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Is there any reason? > > The release notes say that "apt upgrade" before "apt full-upgrade" > avoids problems with removal of large numbers of packages. I believe the question was "Why did the release notes start recommending the a

Re: Tab Title when using ssh - Mate Terminal

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 12:04:00 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > I use Mate terminal and often ssh to different systems using multiple tabs > > Usually the tab title changes to the new system when I ssh in, but often it > doesn't revert when I exit. > > Is there any way to make this work consistent

Re: hibernation fails

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 18:18:21 -0400, Eben King wrote: > sudo find /etc -type f -print0 | sudo xargs -0 grep -i resume For the record, you can replace this with: sudo grep -ri resume /etc Of course, your variant allows additional restrictions (filename filters, modification time filters, e

Re: mail log question

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 11:37:22 -, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > > I will try to install rsyslog by first. thanks Greg. > > Another option is Devuan (Debian without systemd) which has less CVEs > anyway. Suggesting that someone replace their *entire* operating system j

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

On 2025-09-13, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> locate can handle regular expressions, for example: >> >> $ locate -r '^/home/richard/' >> >> lists all sub-directories and files in  /home/richard/ > > but BUT *BUT* ;/ > locate NOT suitable for *MY* usage, database requires _refreshing_ But it's re

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:22:04 -0400, duh wrote: > I can be a little slow so  the [ find ... -iname ".*" -o ... ] did not work > for me probably because I do not use 'find' enough to know what to do with > the trailing ... It's not trivial. It would help if you stated *exactly* what result you

Re: is there such a thing as "bytecode" for bash scripts? à la java "bytecode"? ...

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 09:56:15 -0700, Mike Castle wrote: > If you do the same thing in a loop: > > > while true; do > echo "tom" > sleep 1 > done > > It does not seem to reread. That's because of how the bash parser works. Compound commands (which include while loops) are read, parsed an

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On 2025-09-12, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> >> Here's a table: >> >> Command NewPkgs RmvPkgs KeepDebs >> --- --- --- >> apt-get upgrade✓ >> apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs✓

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 12:26:44 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > Is checked KeepDebs for apt-get above a typo? No. It's right there in the changelog entry that you cited: > > Please note that the behavior of apt-get is unchanged. The > > downloaded debs will be kept in the cache directory after

Re: Unusual errors during apt-get update

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 12:51:40 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2025-09-11 18:13:44 +0300, monodev wrote: > > A few hours ago I ran apt-get update and ran into the following error > > messages: > In my case, reexecuting the command does not yield an error, but > it does not try to download the

Re: How mdadm checks periodically the array in Debian 13 Trixie?

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 15:54:49 +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > ~# LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 man -K list-timers > No manual entry for list-timers > Why does the search give no results? > I think I have trouble with manpages search. Any clue? Here's what man(1) says about the -K option: -K, --global

Re: mail log question

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 15:36:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2025-09-12 08:05:58 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The other thing you might need to know is that you can get different > > levels of verbosity when you run the journalctl command as root vs. > > non-root.

Re: mail log question

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 13:24:37 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2025-09-09 22:20:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Or, if you don't care about those files and just want to read the systemd > > log files, you can use journalctl(1). Specifically, a command like > &

Re: No ssh service after upgrade from trixie Sid to forky Sid

On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 05:48:22 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-09-11 22:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > My usual way to upgrade was > > apt-get update > > apt-get dist-upgrade > Without doing that RTFM I don't know what is the difference between > "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade". > I

Re: How mdadm checks periodically the array in Debian 13 Trixie?

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 20:55:06 +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > - Should the …/override.conf file contain only the line: > > OnCalendar=Mon *-*-1..7 17:00:00 You need a [section] header above it. Also, this is a setting that allows multiple instances, so the question is whether you want *both*

Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?

On 2025-09-10, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 01:30:47PM -0400, Bruce Halco wrote: >> Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors and Device: >> /dev/sda [SAT], 30 Offline uncorrectable sectors These seem to come within a >> day or so of a reboot, but it h

Re: How mdadm checks periodically the array in Debian 13 Trixie?

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 20:55:48 +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > Today at 2pm I resumed from suspend to RAM my PC and suddenly an array > checks of my RAID 5 set was started, so the questions are: > > - Which rules "mdadm" now follows to start an array check? It's most likely being triggered by a

Re: mail log question

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 01:25:33 +, Rob Hoo wrote: > I found that after I installed postfix by apt, mail.log was not appeared > in /var/log/. > > do you know how can I check the mail log then? Is the rsyslog package installed? It's not installed by default in newer releases, so you would nee

Re: how to use fcitx5 in trixie live lxde cd

On Sun, Sep 07, 2025 at 19:24:07 -0400, hlyg wrote: > btw what is user password of trixie live cd? i enter sleep mode, to use it > again, it asks me user password According to the IRC bot: 21:12 =dpkg> The debian-live images have a user account configured for you to use. username: u

Re: Cron job for inxi -i reports WAN IP:

On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 12:36:15 +, Andy Smith wrote: > "inxi" sounds like a terrible way to programmatically find your IP > address. I would most likely use the "ip" command and any of its > machine-readable output formats. How would that work? "ip" only know about the IP addresses of the ma

Re: Inquiry about armel support for Debian upgrades post-Trixie

On 2025-09-05, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > Andrea Pappacoda wrote... > >> On Fri Sep 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM CEST, Christoph Biedl wrote: >> > [...] >> > So, as of today, Debian 14 ("trixie") will be the last release to >> > support armel >> > [...] >>=20 >> Just for clarity: Debian "trixie" is number 1

Re: is there such a thing as "bytecode" for bash scripts? à la java "bytecode"? ...

On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 19:27:06 +0200, lbrt...@tutamail.com wrote: > > The way I see thingsbash or any other OS script type must have a compilation > and decodingphase before it talks to the OS. How do you get that stream of > datathat the OS digests? No, bash does not use an internal bytecode

Re: Very slow deb.debian.org speeds

On Fri, Sep 05, 2025 at 21:27:14 +, Ben Zimmerman wrote: > I'm noticing very slow speeds from deb.debian.org, wanted to see if anyone > knew if there's a DoS attack or something going on, or if it's just high > load. deb.debian.org isn't a single server. It's the front end for a content deliv

Re: OT: Best kind of distro for SSD?

On 2025-09-04, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 04:07:59PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: >> On Thursday 04 September 2025 07:40:16 am Andy Smith wrote: >> > Okay so there are some quite obscure things like flash storage not >> > being able to reliably hold data if left powe

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

On 2025-08-31, Tom Browder wrote: > > Does this bash fragment look safe for using bash vars for the first disk: > > SDX=sda > sudo parted /dev/${SDX} mklabel gpt > sudo parted -a opt /dev/${SDX} mkpart primary ext4=0% 100% > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/${SDX} The mkfs step must target the partition, not

Re: Why are these old versions in Trixie?

On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 11:40:05 +, Stefan K wrote: >I'm a bit confused because I'm not sure why some of the packages aren't in >the latest version in Trixie. >I thought the process would be something like: new version is downloaded, >then compiled and a deb package is created

Re: convert html to xml

On 2025-08-30, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 30/8/25 13:06, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> >> This is a Bible teaching ministry. www.gospelbroadcasting.org > > > Congratulations! you have just made your first step in SEO. You have  a > link from a respected (ahem) mailing list to your website! > > I d

Re: Postfix Mariadb startup

On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 14:21:11 +0200, Marco Moock wrote: > On 31.08.2025 11:40 Uhr Tommy Berglund wrote: > > > How can I fix postfix to start after Maria is ready? > > You may edit the systemd unit using After=. And by "edit the systemd unit", what Marco means is "create an override file under

Re: lazy old guy asks question

On 2025-08-29, Andy Smith wrote: > > I have more than 20 years of experience using rsnpashot. For non-trivial > amounts of files I would not recommend rsnapshot or any other > rsync-based backup system in 2025. "Non-trivial" is still a pretty large > amount though and rsnapshot does have the extre

Re: Trixie upgrade that did not change lsb_release to trixie

On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 14:40:24 -0400, Eddie wrote: > Upgraded to trixie from bookworm. Trixie up and running but the lsb_release > did not change to trixie. Did you install from a "Live" image instead of a normal installer? There's a known issue with that: https://bugs.debian.org/039

Re: lazy old guy asks question

On 2025-08-29, alain williams wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 03:57:42PM -0000, Greg wrote: > > RAID is NOT backup - if you delete a file on a RAID-1 (mirror) system then the > file is deleted on both mirrors. Much the same on other RAID levels. Thank you for this because it provide

Re: possible ssh problem

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 16:01:53 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 8/29/25 3:40 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > 1) Your dyndns.org entry is not pointing to the correct IP address. > > ping and looking at my account on dyndns.org, the IP is correct. Let's say your dyndns name is paul, so I can write meaningfu

Re: lazy old guy asks question

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 14:15:29 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > There are backup suites > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many backups > > without needing to store duplicate copies o

Re: possible ssh problem

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:53:44 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 8/29/25 3:35 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > What is "it"? ddclient? > > That might be the answer to the question "what software is > > running on your desktop machine in order to notify dyndns?". > > > > Is it? > > > > If so, please pos

Re: lazy old guy asks question

On 2025-08-29, alain williams wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:02:43PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > >> I have my data on a separate disk that I copy to various places every now >> and again. >> I guess simplest is original plan ( as have been previously given the >> incantation ) to get 3 ~200Gb

Re: lazy old guy asks question

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 10:55:22 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > For the purpose of backing up 3 ~200Gb disks, with Debian operating systems > on them, I wondered if I can put them all on one 1Tb disk and be able to > copy them back. Well, yes, you could. > Not really understanding how dd works wonder

Re: lazy old guy asks question

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 00:52:24 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > If I've got 3 200Gb disks that are working and one 1 Tb disk and want to be > able to copy and replace the 3 disks. OK. > Can I dd copy them to .isos on the 1 Tb disk then put them back on other > disks so they boot? Ah, you mean one o

Re: Failure in repeated aatempts to contact Debian

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 11:23:39 +0100, Donald MacKinnon wrote: > Hello Debian, > I've been trying to get in touch with Debian for several months. > If you get this attempt, please send a simple reply. > One message was an apology for FRANKENDEBIAN. At this point, given that you've ignored the rep

Re: Subject: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian releases

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 18:59:58 +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 08:44:03PM +0300, Tran Duc Minh wrote: > > Subject: Using USB Wi-Fi adapters with older Debian releases > > Your email already has a Subject: header which we can all see. There's > no need to repeat the word "Subje

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

On 2025-08-25, Sander Marechal wrote: > On 8/25/25 16:03, Greg wrote: >> Why would you keep to yourself the make and model of your laptop, which >> info might prove useful in troubleshooting. > > It's in the subject? A Dell XPS 14 9440. Or is there another model &

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

On 2025-08-19, Sander Marechal wrote: > Hello, > > I got a new laptop from work and I installed Debian Trixie on it. It works > great mostly, Why would you keep to yourself the make and model of your laptop, which info might prove useful in troubleshooting. It's crazy, man. Good luck.

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 13:08:49 +, Sander Marechal wrote: > The result is the same, but I saw this error message: > > Aug 25 14:56:42 mrtiddles kernel: cs42l43 sdw:0:0:01fa:4243:01: > firmware: failed to load cs42l43.bin (-2) A search for this file on packages.debian.org yields this result:

Re: Entering blind passwords at the CLI

On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 15:09:09 -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 10:45 Cindy Sue Causey > wrote: > > Am typing this in case this is your situation, too. I just officially > > upgraded to Forky this week. My xfce4-terminal immediately stopped > > accepting CTRL+V copy-and-paste

Re: Security problem with debian12.10.0 (My fault not Debian's)

> Based on this message, it appears Donald is reporting two issues: 1) He tried to download something from a third-party web site and got an error message. There's really nothing that Debian can do ab

Re: Storage tuning

On 7/30/25 14:42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 01:47:53PM +0200, Greg wrote: Hi there, I have a "server" running 24/7 with a lot of RAM. I would like to speed up disk system by giving much higher priority to reads and delaying writes. YES, I KNOW THE RISK! As I

Re: Security problem with debian12.10.0 (My fault not Debian's)

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 08:47:05 +0100, Donald MacKinnon wrote: > About three months ago I sent an apology for inadvertently mixing > distributions. > I'm assuming that you have not received that apology. > Anyway the security problem remains -  obviously I'm having difficulty using > Debian in the

Re: Debian 13, tmpfs and /tmp, /var/tmp

On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 16:20:39 +0200, fred.kite@mailo.com wrote: > Indeed, /tmp is already on tmpfs. Isn't /var/tmp supposed to be as well now? Nope. It has never been special in that way. > Is this tutorial still accurate? > > I'd say it

Re: Fwd: Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

On 2025-08-16, alain williams wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 01:26:28PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > >> Perhaps backup the Firefox bookmarks, uninstall Firefox and purge >> configuration files, restart, install Firefox, and restore bookmarks? >> >> How do I do those things? > > As I said y/day:

Re: Too many open files

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 21:52:30 -0700, Ken Mankoff wrote: > ulimit -Hn and -Sn both report 32768, so that's not it. Those are per-process limits, not global. More on this in a bit. > $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max > 100 > > Also seen at > > $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr > 25312 0 10

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

On 2025-08-17, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> Such as the wifi or sound or the network in general works in the live >> version, but not in the installed one. >> >> Of course, one might posit that these are solvable conundrums by >> definition. > > Reported cases? > I'm an octogenarian retiree that

Re: Fwd: Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 23:00:29 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > # apt-get purge firefox-esr Since the goal is to reinstall firefox-esr shortly afterward, we don't really want to remove anything that depends on firefox-esr, such as a desktop environment metapackage. Even worse, a metapackage th

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

On 2025-08-17, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/16/25 11:40 AM, Greg wrote: >> On 2025-08-16, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> >>> Ask if you can take a Debian Live image on USB and try it, maybe - unlikely >>> but you won't know unless you ask. >>> >&g

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

On 2025-08-16, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Ask if you can take a Debian Live image on USB and try it, maybe - unlikely > but you won't know unless you ask. > This is often suggested but sometimes leads to paradoxical results.

Re: Trixie help wanted to get sound to work

On 2025-08-15, alain williams wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 03:43:28PM -0000, Greg wrote: >> On 2025-08-14, alain williams wrote: >> > Sound works when I boot from the live CD/memory-stick - >> > debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-mate.iso >> > It does not work on

Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 03:46:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The normal size of an initrd image (i.e. by installing the > recommended packages) is not about 9 MB, but now 100 MB: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99M 2025-05-27 23:26:17 initrd.img-6.7.12-amd64 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104M 2025-08-1

Re: ssh to [username].dyndns.org

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 12:32:50 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Oops! > > ssh [username].dyndns.org hangs. Ah. That changes *everything*. At this point, the possibilites are: 1) Your dyndns.org entry is not pointing to the correct IP address. 2) Your ISP is blocking incoming connections, either o

Re: ssh to [username].dyndns.org

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:04:27 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > ping [username].dyndns.org works. > ssh [username].dyndns.org works. > > and > > ssh [IP address given by the ping] > > also hangs. > > Has ssh changed somehow? It's possible that you've configured the client-side options to select an

Re: Bug from installer Trixie release Netinst cd image :(

On 2025-08-15, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > >> Really ? no reactions at all ? > > Probably you addressed the wrong audience. > > Problems with netinst CD should be reported to mailing list > debian...@lists.debian.org netinstall cd is different from the netinstall iso? What is it? The live cd

Re: Trixie help wanted to get sound to work

On 2025-08-14, alain williams wrote: > Sound works when I boot from the live CD/memory-stick - > debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-mate.iso > It does not work on the installed system. > On my box I always have to use the PulseAudio Volume Control widget to select the Built-In audio profile because if I d

Re: unattended-upgrade still tracking Bookworm after upgrading to Trixie

On 2025-08-15, Xiyue Deng wrote: > > , >| # apt update >| # apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs >| # apt dist-upgrade > ` Actually the notes say: ... apt *full-upgrade*. I don't know if there's any difference between the two. I'm thinkng probably not, mais sait-t-on jamais?.

Re: Debian bug report questions...

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 07:13:51 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > I know all of that. It is just that #1068722 has been "lingering" since Tue, > 9 Apr 2024 18:48:02 UTC with nothing being done about it. 17 months with not > even a comment from a maintainer... It's extremely common for Debian bugs t

Re: UVR5 not working after upgrade to Debian 13

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 08:45:18 +, David wrote: > The Python documentation "Whats New In Python 3.13" [1] says: > Remove the tkinter.tix module (deprecated in Python 3.6) > [1] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html Oh, I see. Additional web searches bring up, for example,

Re: UVR5 not working after upgrade to Debian 13

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 05:57:27 +0700, Budi Janto wrote: > > > > > from tkinter import tix > > > > > ImportError: cannot import name 'tix' from 'tkinter' > > > > > (/usr/lib/python3.13/tkinter/__init__.py) > There is no clue of the package named tix. Try installing tix. See if you still g

Re: UVR5 not working after upgrade to Debian 13

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 07:21:47 +0700, Budi Janto wrote: > On 8/12/25 8:22 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 19:57:37 +0700, Budi Janto wrote: > > > from tkinter import tix > > > ImportError: cannot import name 'tix' from 't

Re: UVR5 not working after upgrade to Debian 13

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 19:57:37 +0700, Budi Janto wrote: > Hi, > > I need help to run UVR5 > (https://github.com/Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui/releases/tag/v5.6) > always get stuck requirement py packages. > > $ ~/UVR5$ ./uvr-startup.sh > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/user

Re: recognizing an xterm running only bash from the CLI

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 10:31:38 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Is your actual question, then: > > How can I use a command line command to write something > semi-ephemeral to something displaying in X? > > Options that come to mind: > - lsof /dev/pts/* > - use a notifications demon (e.g.

Re: ONLY lsblk worked Re: How to _display_ disk partition info?

On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 00:05:27 +0800, Ming Kuang wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 09:26:31AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > richard@debian12:~$ su > > > Password: > > > root@debian12:/home/richard# parted > > > bash: parted: command not found > > > root@debian12:/home/richard# sfdisk > > > ba

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

On 2025-08-10, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 16:14:16 -0400, Default User wrote: >> I was doing the upgrade in Gnome, using the Gnome >> GUI terminal. While apt was downloading/installing >> packages, the terminal suddenly disappeared. Not >>

Re: stop "You have mail in /var/mail/mike"

On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 21:48:53 -0500, Mike McClain wrote: > BTW, MAILCHECK="" sets it at 0. That is *extremely* odd. The only way that could happen is if you've turned on the "-i" attribute for the MAILCHECK variable. This is not the default. hobbit:~$ bash hobbit:~$ declare -p MAILCHECK bash

Re: recognizing an xterm running only bash from the CLI

On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 21:58:32 -0500, Mike McClain wrote: > Most of my Linux use is on the commandline. > When I launch X I always start an xterm, one running mc and firefox. > >From X I have a tiny script 'to9' that copies my entry to /dev/tty9. > Going the other way from the CLI to X I have to

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