I can't setup my LG-HBS-XL7 bluetooth headset with "headset" used for both output and input

2024-10-02 Thread tom arnall
I can't setup my LG-HBS-XL7 bluetooth headset with "headset" used for both output and input. I'm using the Gnome Settings app trying to do it. Debian 12 040:~/dl$ ps -A |grep pipe >tmp.txt 1993 ?00:01:48 pipewire 1996 ?00:01:59 pipewire-pulse 040:~/dl$ apropos sound alsabat

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

2024-09-26 Thread tom arnall
://events.democrats.org On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 8:03 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 25/09/2024 14:24, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Max Nikulin writes: > > > >> On 25/09/2024 02:27, tom arnall wrote: > >>> immediately changes to handsfree, which produces only a hum in mono > >&

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

2024-09-25 Thread tom arnall
Gad! I totally forgot about the headset hw: LG-HBS-XL7. On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 12:27 PM tom arnall wrote: > > I can't get the sound settings stable for my headset. When I set output to > headset and then set input to headset, the output setting immediately > changes to

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

2024-09-24 Thread tom arnall
24 at 12:27 PM tom arnall wrote: > > I can't get the sound settings stable for my headset. When I set output to > headset and then set input to headset, the output setting immediately > changes to handsfree, which produces only a hum in mono when I test it. > I'm using the

can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

2024-09-24 Thread tom arnall
I can't get the sound settings stable for my headset. When I set output to headset and then set input to headset, the output setting immediately changes to handsfree, which produces only a hum in mono when I test it. I'm using the Gnome Settings gui app to make the settings.

Re: need jigdo help

2024-09-21 Thread Tom Furie
recrate an ISO from jigdo you probbly want to look at jigdo-lite, from the same package. As far as I know, jigdo-file is for creating the jigdo files. Cheers, Tom -- A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Include me out. -Samuel Goldwyn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Lost internet access on Trixie this morning.

2024-09-16 Thread Tom Furie
can't find any site, > Thunderbird still reports no connectionss. Actually, it doesn't look good - you don't have any ip addresses on eno1, the interface is down. You're going to have to find out why that is. Cheers, Tom -- Boucher's Observation: He wh

Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older)

2024-09-14 Thread Tom Furie
> faster than it would have been back in the day over dialup but > definitely not a high speed archive :-) https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/ has images going all the way back to 1.3. Prior to 3.0 is in the "older-contrib" directory. Cheers, Tom -- Sometimes I worry a

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Tom Browder
27;ve been audited twice by the IRS, so I'm pretty reliant on a good tax program. I tried going with a CPA once, but he had more forms for me to fill out than the tax programs, and wanted a large fee besides. Thanks, all respondents, for good advice on my laptop quest. -Tom

Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Tom Browder
x27;s all most adults and young people have been exposed to. Note I do not want to get involved with Chromebooks. Thanks for any suggestions. -Tom

Re: MAC filter

2024-09-02 Thread Tom Furie
; For what it is worth: > > $ ip --brief link > lo UNKNOWN00:00:00:00:00:00 And if you're interested in only the interface name and MAC address, pipe that result to awk, so... ip -br l | awk '{print $1,$3}' Cheers, Tom -- Many people are unenthusiastic about their work. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Direct Messaging

2024-08-31 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 15:05 john doe wrote: > On 8/31/24 17:01, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 03:18:10PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > >> On 31/08/2024 14:26, Tom Browder wrote: > >>> Anyone know of a way to send text messages to willing r

Re: Simple group email list

2024-08-31 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 08:43 Geert Stappers wrote: … Yes, I also used Mailman2, but hoped MM3 would cure its warts—unfortunately it ruined it for me. Maybe I should revisit it. -Tom

Direct Messaging

2024-08-31 Thread Tom Browder
Anyone know of a way to send text messages to willing recipients from one’s own website and server without hiring DM provider? Thanks. -Tom

Simple group email list

2024-08-31 Thread Tom Browder
that’s easily done now without lots of hoop jumping. Anyone have a pointer to a recipe for doing that? I’m running multiple virtual hosts with modern Apache with https on my own remote server running Debian. My DNS provider is Namecheap. Thanks. -Tom

Re: Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

2024-08-31 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 14:55 Tom Browder wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 08:06 Michael Grant > … I’m too lazy at the moment to self-host. Anyone suggest a provider that is in the US? -Tom

Re: printer replacement

2024-08-30 Thread Tom Dial
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing (found by searching internet for "hplip") The site has a list of (it says) 3,390 printers. The list of "All Supported Printers" looks like the newest are listed first. Regards, Tom Dial tia.

Re: Request for Download Link for Debian 10 Installer

2024-08-25 Thread Tom Furie
tart at https://get.debian.org/images/archive/ 10.13.0 is the last release of Buster. Cheers, Tom -- History repeats itself only if one does not listen the first time. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: internal keyboard does not work

2024-08-23 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 11:52:23PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 07:54:13PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > Nilesh Patra (12024-08-23): > > > What drives such a hostile and uncalled-for reply? > > > > It was sarcastic, but in no way hostile. > > I encourage you to re-read

Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ]

2024-08-19 Thread Tom Dial
/etc/fstab normally will be set up correctly for the instance during installation, and may be modified by editing /etc/fstab (for instance, to enable data exchange by cross mounting one or more partitions used primarily by a different image). Regards, Tom Dial Please reference documentatio

Re: Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

2024-08-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 12:36 Dan Ritter wrote: > Michael Kj??rling wrote: > > On 14 Aug 2024 21:22 -0600, from charlescur...@charlescurley.com > (Charles Curley): ... I don't really need any Linux support as long as the app supports Gmail and Google contacts. -Tom

Re: Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

2024-08-15 Thread Tom Browder
ian Bookworm repos (though it is free and > > open source). Thanks Micheal and Charles! I'll check it out. Debianly yours, -Tom

Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

2024-08-14 Thread Tom Browder
have a better solution to recommend? Note I spend most of my computer time via the Termius iOS app to my local and remote Debian servers and usually have an iPhone readily available. Thanks for any help you can provide. Best regards, -Tom

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-17 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 06:20 Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 01:45 jeremy ardley > wrote: > ... > > I appreciate your and others views on the Windows version I'm using. I am > using > 10 only because it's the only one I still have a key for, and I wa

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-17 Thread Tom Browder
it has the capability to build the libraries needed to run Rakudo. A brief search shows that Win 7 might work, and legit versions are available. But are legit isos around for ease of installation? Thanks. -Tom

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
I now have a good solution. -Tom

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
I gave the process 8 threads, 40 Gb of RAM, and 100 Gb of SSD space. It installed like a charm and I look forward to exercising it. Thanks all! -Tom

Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
Ware product not so much. Thanks, Jeremy! -Tom

VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Tom Browder
legal copy of Win 10 on a CD as well as a portable DVD player with a USB connector.) Thank you my fellow Debian users! Best regards, -Tom

Re: Help installing gdb package using apt

2024-07-15 Thread Tom Dial
f] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code <https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code> stable main $ cat /etc/debian_version 12.5 This indicates your Debian installation is not up to date. The present release level is 12.6, and the update to 12.7 will will be released in a few wee

Re: overthewire.org: safe to use?

2024-06-18 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 20:08 john doe wrote: > On 6/16/24 19:27, Tom Browder wrote: > > Anyone here have any cautionary advice about using the ssh to war games > on > > their site? > … According to [2], nothing needs to be installed. > Ah, I just noticed the port was

overthewire.org: safe to use?

2024-06-16 Thread Tom Browder
any user prep except the installed package—and I’m not used to that at all. Thanks. -Tom

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-09 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/9/24 00:14, gene heskett wrote: On 6/8/24 19:11, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/7/24 23:41, gene heskett wrote: On 6/7/24 20:38, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/6/24 23:14, gene heskett wrote: On 6/6/24 19:00, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 19:53, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 17:25, Tom Dial wrote

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-08 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/7/24 23:41, gene heskett wrote: On 6/7/24 20:38, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/6/24 23:14, gene heskett wrote: On 6/6/24 19:00, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 19:53, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 17:25, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 08:58, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 02:05, Tom Dial wrote

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-07 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/6/24 23:14, gene heskett wrote: On 6/6/24 19:00, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 19:53, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 17:25, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 08:58, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 02:05, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/4/24 04:26, gene heskett wrote: On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-06 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/5/24 19:53, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 17:25, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/5/24 08:58, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 02:05, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/4/24 04:26, gene heskett wrote: On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi Gene, If this was someone calling you from a TV station

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-05 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/5/24 08:58, gene heskett wrote: On 6/5/24 02:05, Tom Dial wrote: On 6/4/24 04:26, gene heskett wrote: On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi Gene, If this was someone calling you from a TV station saying they had a TV transmitter that was varying in power output - you'd

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2024-06-04 Thread Tom Dial
;, and kill it. The -HUP signal is enough. Or you can kill its parent process (third column in the ps -ef output) if it is not a necessary one, or maybe teach it how to not start orca in the first place, I hope this is useful. Things like this can be very annoying. Regards, Tom Dial . Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

Re: last(1) missing after upgrade from 12.5 to sid (util-linux 2.38.1 to 2.40.1-4)

2024-06-03 Thread tom
subscribed to this list. > > Thanks for your help! > > Best! > > Tom > > <8> > > # Prior to upgrade, last(1) is present in 12.5 > > root@lol ~ # cat /etc/debian_version > > 12.5 > > root@lol ~ # which last > > /usr/

last(1) missing after upgrade from 12.5 to sid (util-linux 2.38.1 to 2.40.1-4)

2024-06-03 Thread tom
Hello! last(1) seems to have disappeared following an upgrade from 12.5 to sid. More info is shown below. What is my mistake? Or, could it be a bug? Please send me copies of replies since I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks for your help! Best! Tom <8> # Pr

Re: Bookworm and its kernel: any updates coming?

2024-06-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 09:15 Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 3 Jun 2024 08:40 -0500, from tom.brow...@gmail.com (Tom Browder): > > I keep getting emails concerning the serious kernel vulnerability in > > kernels 5.14 through 6.6. > > > > I ha

Re: Bookworm and its kernel: any updates coming?

2024-06-03 Thread Tom Browder
ferent default pinnings in '/etc/apt/sources.list'. I'll double-check my pinnings. -Tom

Bookworm and its kernel: any updates coming?

2024-06-03 Thread Tom Browder
I keep getting emails concerning the serious kernel vulnerability in kernels 5.14 through 6.6. I have not seen any updates and uname -a shows: 6.1.0-13-amd64 Anyone concerned? -Tom

Re: Solution for KVM via a cat 5 connection

2024-05-27 Thread Tom Browder
es, just programming and > > office work. I need a bit more distance from my computer which must stay > in > > a closet, and conventional KVM equipment won’t work. > > You can do it without KVM, but using another computer connected to your > screen/keyboard/etc... Thanks, Stefan. That is a good solution. Best regards, -Tom

Solution for KVM via a cat 5 connection

2024-05-27 Thread Tom Browder
a closet, and conventional KVM equipment won’t work. If so, I would appreciate knowing what brand and model devices you are using. Thanks so much. -Tom

Re: selinux on bookworm

2024-05-17 Thread Tom Dial
e advantage of being the distribution default, but I have not found SELinux especially hard to administer on a stable Debian system, apart from the fact that it comes with a learning curve. Regards, Tom Dial

Re: realpath quoting

2024-05-04 Thread Tom Browder
ith spaces| file 2: |name with newlines| With Raku, it's easy to search the directory for the weird file names, open them, and use their contents. Raku also has many built-in quoting constructs to suit any situation. I'll be happy to demo any of that here. Best regards, -Tom

Re: Reportbug Assisance

2024-03-05 Thread Tom
Just reminding whomever checks this mailbox, that I am still awaiting an answer to this question here. Thanks, On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:49 PM Tom wrote: > I originally filed this bug with the KDE team, but they asked me to file > with Debian. There was a decent amount of discussion w

Reportbug Assisance

2024-02-26 Thread Tom
I originally filed this bug with the KDE team, but they asked me to file with Debian. There was a decent amount of discussion which I will link here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481746. I need to know how to file this bug. Will I be filing under a package or one of the other categories? T

Re: man page for cut

2024-01-17 Thread Tom Furie
Richmond writes: > In the man page for cut it says: > > -b, --bytes=LIST > select only these bytes > > But there is no equals sign in the actual syntax: > > echo hello|cut -b 2-5 > ello > > echo hello|cut -b=2-5 > cut: invalid byte/character position ‘=2-5’ > Try 'cut --help' for m

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Tom Furie
Thomas George writes: > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-security  main non-free > non-free-firmware > Err:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-security Release >   404  Not Found [IP: 151.101. Your source is incorrect. The security repo is at "http://security.debian.org/debian-secu

Re: /mnt usage

2024-01-16 Thread Tom Furie
hw writes: > /tmp is volatile nowadays and not temporary. That's particularly Volatile storage is, by definition, temporary. > braindead when you want Libreoffice to be able to recover files after > a crash, which, by default, autosaves in /tmp. /tmp is a terrible place to store recovery data

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

2024-01-16 Thread Tom Furie
hw writes: >> > > It says 'made thread ... (at nice level 0) owned by 1000'. This is > inconclusive at best: The thread is obviously _at_ some nice level or > _at_ some priority and was made owned by 1000. > > If it had changed the priority it should say that, but it doesn't. It does say that.

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-16 Thread Tom Furie
Felix Miata writes: > /dev/sdc 18 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Brother_MFC-J6920DW_BROG5F229909-0:0 # > How does a printer get a storage device assignment??? By having some kind of SD card slot or similar.

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

2024-01-15 Thread Tom Furie
hw writes: > Aren't there going to be lots of problems with things not working when > you don't have dbus? Fewer than when things don't work when you *do* have dbus, apparently ;) There doesn't seem to be an overwhelming need for it once you step away from the DE's.

Re: nftables firewall question: matching udp in ipv6

2024-01-12 Thread Tom Furie
Ralph Aichinger writes: > I am currently fighting with the following problem: I've got a system > that has 3 relevant interfaces: ppp0, en0 and en2, for external, > internal and dmz respectively. > > The dmz is IPv6 only, a homelab testbed more or less. > > I've got the follwing rules in /etc/nf

Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC

2024-01-05 Thread Tom Furie
e I simply haven't found the right combination of switches to flip. Having said that, I'm no expert on Linux audio. I wouldn't attempt to run a modern DE on this system, but it seems happy with OpenBox. Even Firefox, Chromium, LibreOffice, etc. are usable - if not perhaps the smoothest experience. Cheers, Tom

Re: Test

2023-12-22 Thread Tom Furie
Pocket writes: > On 12/22/23 16:08, Tixy wrote: >> On Fri, 2023-12-22 at 12:15 -0500, Pocket wrote: >>> This is a test of the emergency broadcast system >> Please stop spamming the 1000 or so people subscribed to this list. > > I am not spamming this list I am trying to determine if my email setu

Re: Zoom on Bookworm?

2023-12-19 Thread Tom Dial
it always is a wise to consider the terms of use and other legal documentation and exercise discretion. If you decide to use it, I use (as root) apt install zoom_amd64.deb It installs under /opt except for a symbolic link /usr/bin/zoom -> /opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher Regards, Tom Dial

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towait for it to respond

2023-12-13 Thread Tom Furie
nd its component devices? Is the filesystem on the raid healthy? Cheers, Tom

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing to wait for it to respond

2023-12-13 Thread Tom Furie
levant information) a DNS timeout. Cheers, Tom

Re: From which kernel should I upgrade my installed Debian to linux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64?

2023-12-11 Thread Tom Furie
less for a number of users. Expect blogposts about > that as well. Do we know yet which wifi drivers are "troublesome"? I haven't seen anything concrete yet anywhere. Cheers, Tom

Re: Boot Problem

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Furie
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > On 12/05/2023 12:47 PM, Tom Furie wrote: >> "Stephen P. Molnar" writes: >> >>> I have Bookworm installed on a 1TB SSD. When I attempted logging this >>> morning I failed! Rather than opening my XFCE desktop I

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Browder
useful. > The following seems to list most of the various programs discussed in this > thread, plus a > couple of others: > apt-cache search pdf-viewer Thanks so much Mike! And also many thanks to all my Debian friends who answered. I think my side of this thread is done now. "Merry Christmas to all and t all a good night!" -Tom

Re: Boot Problem

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Furie
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > I have Bookworm installed on a 1TB SSD. When I attempted logging this > morning I failed! Rather than opening my XFCE desktop I was sent back > tot he login screen, over and over and . I got the When you say "back to the login screen", do you mean ba

Re: Found a liar

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Furie
John Hasler writes: > Why did you install zsh and then immediately remove it? Or possibly: 1 - Install zsh 2 - switch to zsh 3 - uninstall zsh from within zsh.

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 17:12 Tom Browder wrote: > I have used Evince as my PDF viewer and printer program for many I see I need to read the CUPS man page more closely. It looks like it has most all of the answers I need for my current situation. Thanks to all who responded. Happy Christ

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 01:14 Marco Moock wrote: > Am 04.12.2023 um 17:12:28 Uhr schrieb Tom Browder: > > > I would like to use another program which is similar but has good > > documentation. I don't need a heavy duty program like LibreOffice, > > Just something for

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 02:06 Paul M Foster wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 05:12:28PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > I have used Evince as my PDF viewer and printer program for many > > years. It still works, but it has been spitting out error messages for > >

Re: time question, as in ntp?

2023-12-05 Thread Tom Dial
s not Debian (or Red Hat or HP-UX or Solaris) and I don't have any idea. If it were debian(-derived) you could say "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" - might be worth a try. Or maybe consult the vendor. Regards, Tom Dial The current state is that the 3d printer has only a 169.254.x.y

Re: Print flakes off mailing labels, use a fixative?

2023-12-04 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 19:36 David Christensen wrote: ... > Please confirm printer, toner cartridge, and labels are all HP. If so, > I would contact HP. HP printer and toner, Office Depot labels. I bought so hair spray and will try that. -Tom

Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-04 Thread Tom Browder
similar but has good documentation. I don't need a heavy duty program like LibreOffice, Just something for viewing and printing. A bonus would be one with documented CLI use with CUPS printers. Thanks for any recommendations. Best regards, -Tom

Re: ntpsec as server questions

2023-12-04 Thread Tom Furie
gene heskett writes: > Mon Dec 4 15:47:44 UTC 2023 > Mon 04 Dec 2023 03:47:16 PM UTC > WTH? Where is that false 12 hour offset coming from? There's no offset. 15:00 UTC *is* 03:00 PM UTC ^^

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

2023-12-03 Thread Tom Dial
collapse. As a reference point Isolated Web Co is an occasional annoyance here on machines with well over 64G memory. I kill it without mercy when it appears to be causing swap. Regards, Tom Dial The issue is not so much Isolated Web Co being terminated, but my entire Mate session being

Re: Print flakes off mailing labels, use a fixative?

2023-12-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 2:01 AM David Christensen wrote: > I would not put anything through a laser printer unless it is > specifically rated for laser printers. Applying fixative to printer > labels before printing sounds like a good way to damage your equipment. > If anything, apply the fixative

Re: Print flakes off mailing labels, use a fixative?

2023-12-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 5:17 PM Gareth Evans wrote: > Are your labels "laser" labels? Yes, DUAL INKJET and LASER -Tom

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

2023-12-02 Thread Tom Furie
jeremy ardley writes: > I don't think it is actually a lack of memory. What I do see is all > the web browsers are up there on CPU along with nvidia-modeset. What do you consider to be "up there"? 4.3% (your highest CPU usage in this output) hardly seems to qualify as something to be concerned a

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

2023-12-02 Thread Tom Furie
jeremy ardley writes: > I noticed my Firefox -esr browser becoming progressively more > sluggish. Then suddenly I was back to the system login screen > > This is not the first time this has happened although previously when > it started getting sluggish I killed all Firefox related process > > Sy

Debian Bookworm cannot find Nvidia graphics card

2023-12-02 Thread tom cullen
ng my Nvidia card working. Many thanks, Tom Cullen

Re: Print flakes off mailing labels, use a fixative?

2023-12-02 Thread Tom Browder
ye out for one. Blessings to all. -Tom

Re: Print flakes off mailing labels, use a fixative?

2023-12-02 Thread Tom Browder
double sided-printing, copying, and scanning. Multiple paper trays for two sizes of paper would be nice. I have had great luck with HP over the years, but I'm open to suggestions. Thanks, Donald. -Tom

Print flakes off mailing labels, use a fixative?

2023-12-02 Thread Tom Browder
I’ve had a print flaking problem with my old HP laser which has a fairly new toner cartridge. I have a set of brand new Office Depot labels. I intend to try a “fixative” on them to see if that will help. Any other suggestions? Thanks. Happy Christmas! -Tom

Re: packages listed vs. apt-rdepends --follow=Depends ...

2023-12-01 Thread Tom Furie
y with dpkg when apt can handle it all cleanly? Whatever it is you're trying to do, this feels like the wrong way to go about it... Cheers, Tom

Re: packages listed vs. apt-rdepends --follow=Depends ...

2023-12-01 Thread Tom Furie
lding dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > wget > libc6 > libcrypt1 > libgcc-s1 > gcc-10-base > libgnutls30 > libgmp10 > libhogweed6 > libnettle8 > libidn2-0 > libunistring2 > libp11-kit0 > libffi7 > libtasn1-6 > libpcre2-8-0 > libpsl5 > libuuid1 > zlib1g This is a recursive search, also showing dependencies of dependencies, etc. Cheers, Tom

Re: didn't can use "fdisk"!

2023-12-01 Thread Tom Furie
ot@debian:/sbin# ls -al > . > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    169520 Mar 23  2023 fdisk It would seem that /sbin isn't in your $PATH. What method did you use to become root? Cheers, Tom

Re: debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso usb grub boot error "invalid buffer alignment"

2023-11-20 Thread Tom Furie
his stick must have already had an image written to it, the leftovers of which is getting as far as GRUB. I noticed you posted a follow-up saying you're on Ubuntu - in which case you should be able to use dd to write the image to the stick. Cheers, Tom

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-08 Thread Tom Dial
nage, albeit with learning curves. I haven't used hardware raid because the software ones are quite good enough, and they also have their learning curve. Regards, Tom Thanks Tomas Cheers, Gene Heskett.

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-08 Thread Tom Dial
On 11/7/23 17:19, gene heskett wrote: On 11/7/23 18:42, Tom Dial wrote: On 11/6/23 08:47, Franco Martelli wrote: On 03/11/23 at 17:27, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; As usual, the man page may as well be written in swahili. The NDE syndrome, meaning No D-d Examples. I have

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-07 Thread Tom Dial
-UX and SolaRIS) and Linux environments. Both have learning curves that I would judge comparable, both are flexible and fairly easy to manage, and both are or can be highly resilient. On the whole, though, I prefer ZFS. Regards, Tom Dial How about to use debian-installer: burn the dvd image o

Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]

2023-11-07 Thread Tom Browder
I’m comforted by this friendly discussion about the old days versus the modern generation by fellow old folks of pre-PC days. Sort of like an afternoon gathering at the Elks or the VFW. Thank you all. Blessings. -Tom

Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

2023-11-02 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 09:27 Tom Browder wrote: > Every time I set up a new host, I have to jump through the hoops trying to On my main Debian 11 host I have found one formula that works for ssh logins as well as xterm login on a Mate desktop: I followed most of the formulas on the Deb

Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

2023-10-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 9:27 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > Every time I set up a new host, I have to jump through the hoops trying to > get the same PATH for > ordinary users as well as root... This Debian wiki doc pretty much details the information Greg has been giving us

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-24 Thread tom kronmiller
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 1:35 AM tom kronmiller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 12:02 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > >> On 24/10/2023 12:18, tom kronmiller wrote: >> > so I unbuffered stdin and that seemed to make it happy. >> It might be performance killer. Even fflush

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-24 Thread tom kronmiller
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 12:02 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > On 24/10/2023 12:18, tom kronmiller wrote: > > so I unbuffered stdin and that seemed to make it happy. > It might be performance killer. Even fflush(NULL) before fork() may be > better. > In the real program in question,

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-23 Thread tom kronmiller
tom kronmiller wrote: > I ended up using setvbuf(stdin, NULL, _IONBF, 0) in the parent process and > that seems to have fixed the actual program I was having trouble with. thomas schmitt asked: > stdin ? Not setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0) ? Yes, stdin. The problem I was having

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-23 Thread tom kronmiller
I ended up using setvbuf(stdin, NULL, _IONBF, 0) in the parent process and that seems to have fixed the actual program I was having trouble with. On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:19 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > it helps to do > fflush((stdout); > after each printf(), or to run before the loop:

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-23 Thread tom kronmiller
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 10:16 AM Jon Leonard wrote: > More specifically, fork() does not play nicely with stdio buffering. > But the fork() should not be changing the address space of the calling process. The duplicated buffers in the child process might be an issue in general (they aren't in t

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-22 Thread tom kronmiller
> > Try to construct a minimal reproducer, and post it here. Someone may > be able to spot the issue. The shorter and simpler you can make your reproducer, the more likely someone will be able to help. The program: // gcc -o program program.c // program < lines #include #include #include

12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-22 Thread tom kronmiller
I have a small program (extracted from a big program) which reads and prints input lines using a loop of getline() calls. The real input lines are all expected to be 52 characters long (+1 for the newline => 53), that's what my example data for the small program looks like. If there is no fork()

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Tom Browder
x27;t want them to be held up by having to fumble with key trust before at least downloading the files with a first order check with data I can provide. I'll make sure to document exactly what I'm providing. Best regards, -Tom

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